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Kazark
Kazark
3:26 PM
@JonEricson I've been thinking about some of the comments you've made various places about site quality and statistics, etc.
I, as many, arrived in the StackExchange network via StackOverflow.
I was impressed by the rapidness and helpfulness of the answers to programming questions which seemed arcane to me.
It wasn't all that long, tho, until I started to appreciate the site so much that I began to take an active interest in its wellbeing.
And now, over time, I've been disappointed by StackOverflow in comparison the BH and some of the other sites on the network.
Oh, it's still great if you need fast answers. Maybe better than ever.
But in terms of forming the site into more than just a traditional forum, where (like you talked about) you just get the same newb questions over and over, and give the same pat answers, you actually build a sort of wiki of valuable information, I find StackOverflow quite disappointing.
Most of the people can barely spell.
Even many of the high-ranked answerers.
I have been flagging posts over there,
but at least have of my flags have been rejected.
I edit posts, and more of those are accepted, but they have been rejected as well.
To date none of my flags on this site have been rejected, and I have a very low edit rejection/rollback rate here.
This is a "clean" site. The questions and answers are overall quite good quality.
It is interesting when you look at our site stats on Area 51, at this point we are not low on high-ranked users (in the thousands). We are low on medium ranked users (in the hundreds).
As you said in a recent meta post, for the most part we don't get a lot of people who are totally clueless jumping in and asking total newb questions.
All that was rather a ramble; not sure that I have it all pulled together in my head yet.
But I guess the bottom line is, that despite whatever our Area 51 stats may say, I think we have a great thing going here.
My enthusiasm was greatly increased by the Encyclopedia idea.
It made me more bold about what questions to ask, because it meant that even if I had a position on something already I could ask it.
It meant that I could share answers that I wanted to give to questions that didn't exist on the site.
In sum, thank God. This is good and helpful to me and I hope it is to other folks as well.
 
 
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Jon Ericson
Jon Ericson
7:42 PM
@Kazark I just wanted to pick out this point. I've been thinking that one way to look at this site is as a crowd-sourced commentary of the Bible. It's awesome that you are being freed up to provide content.
Maintaining quality seems vital to our existence as an active site, whatever our numbers show.
 

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