It has not been true of any Stack I've ever participated in. There's a constant influx of questions, yes, but good quality stackable questions? There's a constant expenditure of effort to edit, teach, and coerce in order to make questions fit the Stack mold because the influx of new questions is roughly equivalent to an influx of new users.
The hidden quantity which makes questions seem more expendable, is that users are often more willing to put effort into getting their real problems solved, than into solving other peoples' real problems. Answers are written for gamification rewards; questions are asked with real-world stakes.
Which means that the Stack can devalue questions because users will take more exploitation and punishment when asking questions than when answering them, because they have more invested in it.
@BESW I find it to be very true on my most frequented site (physics) - most of our most popular questions are questions by first-time users, wondering about scientific explanations of some phenomenon they've observed
essentially none of our questions have "real-world stakes" - people whose mastery of physics has immediate real-world implications are not our target group and usually have more realiable sources than random strangers on the internet
@BESW I guess? I mean, I see where you're coming from, but it's qualitatively different from the "I need to know how to write this piece of code" that often motivates SO questions"
At least, not in that way. I'm talking about the difference in the effort and reward the Stack puts into questions vs answers, and how it relies on external motivations for questions more than it does answers.
In the sense that, yes, curiosity and professional need are both extrinsic motivations then they are occupying the same category, along with family responsibilities, homework, and running a good TRPG for your friends.
@AncientSwordRage yeah, it's kinda important (but nowhere advertised, of course!) that topic.SE will always only reflect one particular incarnation of community interested in "topic"
"Actionable solutions to real problems," right? The Stack falls apart when problems aren't real, which means curiosity is a real problem within the Stack paradigm.
(I'll point out though, that "how do I code the thing" is not inherently a professional motivation. It can also be curiosity or hobby or whatever. SO wouldn't work if it actually catered to specifically professional questions because those require context and nuance about the job and workplace which the Stack isn't designed to handle.)
(The simple fact that GS/BS is a tacked-on policy fix rather than built into the site itself, is evidence of the Stack's casual relationship with nuanced answers to genuinely complex questions. It's built on the premise that most questions can be given objective truth values which can be identified through the wisdom of crowds, and we see the flaws in that every time a new Stack tries to tackle a topic that can't be reduced to that state. see interpersonal.se or lit.se.)
@AncientSwordRage I suspect a really effective, comprehensive implementation of these sorts of principles would require a dramatic departure from the "wisdom of crowds" method of content-evaluation, which probably necessitates a totally new way of thinking about Q&A services as a functional category.
In other words, the sort of thing I expect a disgruntled Stack veteran to spearhead.
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