EL&U 2014 Election

@tchrist Most of what I want to do I could do as a normal user. I find it odd how many questions people are asking about things the mods don't really deal with on a day to day basis

Moreover, this is not pure conjecture; I have data.

@tchrist I can probably do that for you, actually.

It’s here.

Those sit there forever. Nobody ever deletes the seriously negative closed questions, and while there may be the odd exception, most should — assuming the assumption holds water, that closed questions get deleted. They don't.

I’ve worked my way through the last four pages of them, so 200 I guess, casting a delete vote where I didn't think it worth keeping, which was nearly always. But mine was always the only vote. Nobody else does that scut work.

On SO, this happens more regularly.

"I think I should leave this website. I got an answer to all my questions and the people welcome me with downvotes." – Archa 2 mins ago New user. english.stackexchange.com/questions/178690/…

12:08 AM

@tchrist I tried helping with this but found it too painful to keep at it. So I've moved on to other things that are more efficient.

I feel like having so many old closed negatively voted questions doesn’t help us look good.

@MrHen I can see that.

It’s like when I found 200 pejorative-language questions and their thousands of answers. Reading them all in a row really got me down.

is:question closed:1 I never knew of this queue.

@medica Users that make it a point to tell us they are leaving usually aren't here for the right reason anyway.

@tchrist Yeah. That's why I took on the Unanswered queue. It was quick and rather fulfilling.

@MrHen Not mourning her departure; see the reason. We should delete questions like this. It would cut down on the negativity, and quit making the site look like one for irrelevant questions.

(Okay, really leaving this time.)

12:12 AM

How often do people hunt down the deletable questions?

That's my point. How can I hunt them down if I have never been told how to?

I don't understand how I could have been given these tools (soon to expand to 25K) with no instruction about them. I could be doing much more.

8 mins ago, by tchrist

I feel like having so many old closed negatively voted questions doesn’t help us look good.

I agree completely.

12:55 AM

@medica The is no 25k expansion. There are 10, 15, and 20k levels.

@tchrist I was under the impression that at 20K. andwers could be deleted, but at 25K, closed questions could be deleted. My mistake is this is incorrect.

1:08 AM

This is an example of something we can do nothing about. No kindness will solve this:

I still find the down voting mean. I did what I wanted to do here, so good bye. — Archa 12 mins ago

2:02 AM

@medica People who come from a background of social networking sites where only upvoting is possible, never downvoting, and where topics can never be closed out as pointless but just drivel on in perpetuity, do not understand how SE works and therefore take extreme umbrage over the normal workings of things here. No, we are not going to be able to resolve that set of misexpectations.

On a programming site, if you give a wrong answer and get voted down for being a wrong/bad answer, it doesn't make young women want to go out and cut their wrists over it. Here, for some reason, I somethings almost think it does.

Yes, that’s ridiculous hyperbole, but the point stands that there is something different going on.

5:02 AM

Yes, and this is one reason which can't be fixed that people will be dissatisfied with our site. It has nothing to do with unfriendliness, comments, or their reception. It is unfortunate.

skullpatrol

7:59 AM

@GraceNote could you please rename this room to something that doesn't look so much like the regular ELU room title because I, and a few others, keep getting fooled into coming in here instead :-)

Thank you.

Caleb

10:11 AM

@skullpatrol I second that request, and I think I can even do it myself with my chat mod powers. But what should it be changed to? «EL&U 2014 Elections» sound ok?

room topic changed to EL&U 2014 Election: Open Discussion for english.stackexchange.com/election/3 (no tags)

If anybody has another suggestion fire away.