Timeline for Clarification on questions asked without showing what user has tried to solve
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| Jul 17, 2017 at 13:59 | comment | added | user13757 | @"And nope, your idea about "discouraging" answers makes no sense, because voting system is about usefulness of an answer, not on what they answer." Well obviously i'm proposing a change so that the "voting system" takes into account pointless "do my homework" (and the like) questions that should be closed and not answered. Everyone's different but I'm not really a "please sew a shirt onto this button I just found" kinda guy. | |
| Jul 17, 2017 at 10:47 | comment | added | Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy | @DrEval your assumption is that low quality answers are constantly low quality. Everything can be salvaged via editing.That's why communication with OP of such question is important. And nope, your idea about "discouraging" answers makes no sense, because voting system is about usefulness of an answer, not on what they answer. That is contrary to SE philosophy in general. There is no limit to what can or can't be answered, not on here or any StackExchange site, unless the question is closed. | |
| Jul 17, 2017 at 10:42 | comment | added | user13757 | @SergiyKolodyazhnyy Punishing (and i'm really talking about awarding no rep in the first instance, or perhaps -2 or something small per answer) would have the effect of discouraging people from answering obviously low quality questions that you don't want on the site. Stopping these questions in the first place is less easy than getting existing users (who know the culture better) to behave differently. | |
| Jul 17, 2017 at 10:33 | comment | added | Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy | @DrEval quality of questions/answers doesn't raise if you punish users. Besides, why would one punish a user that provides clear, proper answer ? voting system is based on usefulness and correctness of an answer, and in no way should be correlated to the quality of question asked. Punishing answers based on question doesn't follow logically | |
| Jul 17, 2017 at 10:21 | comment | added | user13757 | "Answering such questions isn't a problem...in no way prohibited...you have to show at least some effort before asking a question". You should have to show some effort but you don't, because people DO answer them, because there's no punishment (the opposite: you earn rep). So it'll happen forever, lowering the quality of question and annoying long time/high rep users. The solution is to punish (not award rep) people who answer "no effort shown" questions. But this has been discussed before and it went nowhere, perhaps because new, low quality users are more desirable than long-time ones. | |
| Jul 16, 2017 at 4:25 | comment | added | Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy | @Sundeep Yep, exactly. Each user has their own "sweet spot" as you said. I myself have come to focus less on reputation, and more on contributing value to users. Having attained almost 50k on Ask Ubuntu and participating on different sites, I've learned that it's more important to see what would be The Right Thing to Do in each case, rather than chase reputation no matter what. | |
| Jul 16, 2017 at 4:21 | comment | added | Sundeep |
thanks for the answer... Look at the specific case and decide is what seems to be consensus... I am getting closer to finding a sweet spot for myself in this regard
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| Jul 16, 2017 at 3:57 | history | edited | Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 16, 2017 at 3:50 | history | answered | Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |