Timeline for Why are Kali questions hated so much?
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| Mar 20, 2019 at 10:59 | comment | added | Anthony Geoghegan | While there are many bad Kali questions, I tend to agree that some users react instinctively to the mention of Kali and vote-to-close without judging questions on their own merit. I came across Sam’s question in the Close Vote review queue. As the question provided sufficient detail to be answerable, I voted to keep it open and posted an answer. I later nominated it for re-opening and edited it to improve its chances of being re-opened – but not enough users voted to re-open the question. :( | |
| Mar 20, 2019 at 3:53 | comment | added | Sam | (cont.) instead of directing people to a question that confuses (and can anger) people, and isn't very helpful from a quick glance. | |
| Mar 20, 2019 at 2:51 | comment | added | Sam | Ok, how about making a protected post about making/editing to make a better post and about general advice or links to some general advice/help? | |
| Mar 20, 2019 at 2:32 | comment | added | slm Mod | @Sam - to try and fix the problem 2 things would likely have to happen, we'd need more agreed buy-in from ppl on the site to help pitch-in and try and help actively sort the incoming Q's and the current Q's associated to the primary Dup Q would need to be sifted and either deleted or try to salvage. | |
| Mar 20, 2019 at 2:29 | comment | added | slm Mod | @Sam - much of the time many of us were devoting to the site was being consumed by those Q's with efforts to try and clean them up and edit them into useful Q's and then the asker would either disappear w/o providing additional details or would bury whatever person was willing to help w/ a "help desk" engagement. | |
| Mar 20, 2019 at 2:12 | comment | added | slm Mod | @Sam - That's basically what's suppose to happen now. If low effort use one of the standard close reasons until they improve it. Basically that Dup Q has just become a lightning rod that all the trash Q's get piled on to. | |
| Mar 20, 2019 at 1:47 | comment | added | Sam | What if instead of marking questions as a duplicate of the "Why is this hard" question, which extremely confuses (and can anger) people, people who asked low effort questions should be directed to the answers of the that question, where the help lies? That, or direct them towards making it a higher effort/quality question? | |
| Mar 20, 2019 at 0:56 | history | answered | slmMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |