This question is another take on the duplicates problem. It steals is inspired by ideas from the verious posts and feature-reqeusts posted here on meta.
Disclaimer: In this post, I am referring to the "Users" or "The People" or "The Gang" or "Everyone". What I actually mean is the bunch of folks...
@MadaraUchiha Which I get the feeling will require a lot of tuning. And the false positive rate would be very high.
I'm not against the idea of presenting a list of questions. And if the user says "no" to all of them in a short amount of time and it gets closed as a dupe of one of them - insta-question-ban the user.
If the user brushes it all aside, that user clearly doesn't give a shit.
In which case, we (the users) probably shouldn't give a shit either.
Another brutal idea would be to "quietly" partition the user-base.
Going back to my 4 camps answer. There's really only 2 factions at odds with each other. Caretakers vs. vampires/whores.
If you could separate the communities, everyone would be happy.
But of course we can't really do that on SO. Since that goes back to gazzilion dupes of having a "newbie" version of SO.
But what you could do is algorithmically bias the questions that users will see.
If you algorithmically detect a user is camp 3 (repwhore), then bias the questions that they see towards those from all the camp 2 (help vampires).
If you algorithmically detect a user is camp 1 (caretaker), bias their front page in favor of questions from other camp 1 caretakers.
I don't think it will be too difficult to find the right algorithm to categorize each user.
I think dividing the question votes into several categories would significantly help the noobs determine what the hell is wrong with their questions
for example add a special vote button for high-rep users (camp 1) like "no research" and that would automatically make a template message appear explaining to the poster what they're lacking
and honestly would you rather post a comment by typing the message manually each time you see a bad question or just press "no research" or "no code" instead?
I've been thinking about it, and it seems to me that the reason why the category 1 people are so annoyed with everything is because they constantly see bad questions when they browse the site, and bad questions are bad. To make them happy, all you have to do is balance out the bad stuff with better good stuff.
So just add some moe anime girls to the header and sidebar and it will fix all the hate.
it could be a very harsh solution to the problem, but we could make up some "entry exam" of sorts to figure out whether a user is at least competent enough to read the help, and at most will try to find an existing solution by searching similar questions before posting his own
@senshin There are some situations that seem to come up repeatedly, like new users asking for recommendations. It wouldn't be a terrible idea to have prepared comments for those situations.
well yeah, copypasta doesn't just appear on its own, it's very useful
but there is a ton of different cases as can be seen on that TeX post, there should be some auto-detection for the most relevant to be pushed to the top
like recommendation would put the corresponding auto-comment on top of the copypasta list
I address the several arguments against such questions separately:
Not of general interest: I think individual movies are of sufficiently general interest for a Stack Exchange as they are consumed by a wide audience. With Science Fiction & Fantasy, Movies & TV and Anime & Manga, there are at le...
I address the several arguments against such questions separately:
Not of general interest: I think individual movies are of sufficiently general interest for a Stack Exchange as they are consumed by a wide audience. With Science Fiction & Fantasy, Movies & TV and Anime & Manga, there are at le...
