@FreezePhoenix Why is that? Content posted across different network sites have different measures of quality, if you're good at coding and got a bunch of rep from SO, it should have no effect on the measure of your WB content.
Voting patterns differ across sites. It doesn't matter if your posts are of equally good quality network-wide; on some sites, you'll get more votes than others because some sites are high-voting sites.
You'll increase the amount of knowledge you have, at the same time as producing higher quality content, and at the same time cut down on the number of questions you'll ACTUALLY ask (since if you're researching properly you'll answer a lot of your own questions). Food for thought; If you're asking less questions, you're getting a higher ratio.
Basically, average question score in tag and average answer score in tag and average accepted answer in tag weighted by the average question post rate and average answer post rate total for their site activity.
I asked What should our policy be about answering questions that we perceive as close-worthy?, which is a duplicate of Answering a Question you Closed. The policy we want is basically Rule 8 from Rules of Peer Moderation:
Don't answer a question that you voted to close.
This behaviour is c...
We might be able to measure the correlation between RPP and their rep levels
@Mithrandir24601 if you could that'd be awesome
@dot_Sp0T I considered that possibility for a moment and decided I didn't have time to actually do it lol
@Mithrandir24601 don't forget to ignore accounts with 0 posts.
I think an interesting pattern that goes with this formula is that any new user that came from a different site (and thus starts with 101 rep) would essentially get a lower RPP if they posted low quality content only; theoretically, they would be able to maintain that high RPP if they posted mostly high quality content.
@Aify It's actually really boring due to a few users with only 1 post getting a ton of rep from that post messing with the scaling... I'll try a log scale or something
If it's off-topic here it should be closed.
If it's off-topic here and on-topic on the other site and of acceptable quality (we don't want to be the dumping ground for others - let's not make others our dumping ground) it should be closed and flagged for moderator attention. Ideally you would h...
@Aify I've been trying to go back and edit my crappy answers into decent ones. I've considered deletion for a couple. It's satsifying to make 'em better, where possible.
@Secespitus thank you very much; though you might want to push it to the top of the post and put the good posts, bad posts wording into ##'s (basically preceding your explanation with simple visuals that people can refer to in their heads while reading, instead of following up when people already have their own picture in their heads)
@Gryphon Quite a few. Some of which got a decent number of upvotes. In a few cases, just because they looked good. In others, HNQ got me more than I should have.
@dot_Sp0T I think the discussion part is important to have before the examples, especially because the examples are very simplified and while I tried to make them somehwat diverse this could lead the kind of people you are thinking of to believe that it's safe to link to certain sites and unsafe to link to other sites.
Since medium questions are most common, medium answers are posted most often. So wehave some users who post a bunch of medium answers to lots of questions (thus bringing the line back down)
whereas we also have users who try to post ONLY good content
Have you researched where other animals store their venom?
And if so, why does it not work for your case?
Furthermore, why do you need the venom to reach the trunk of the elephant?
If it's because they use it to soak up water, given that the elephants are immune to the poison, why is it not okay to have the elephants produce enough highly concentrated venom such that it gets dissolved by water to a point that's still dangerous to other organisms, allowing the elephant can "pull" up through the trunk and then spray out?
Additionally, why does the placement of the venom glands matter? Why can't you place them wherever you want them to be? (eg: right at the tip of the trunk if you're going to use trunk muscles to squirt venom, or in the base of the trunk if you want to be able to build it up before squirting it, or all around inside the trunk if you want to use the dissolving in water method, or etc etc)
@FoxElemental For questions like these, doing as much research as possible will basically give you the answer. I'd say that in general, those kinds of questions are bad questions for WB format - because so much depends on what you want it to be or how you want it to work as an author. I can think of several more possibilities using the tusks of the elephants, for example. There are too many possibilities, and you shouldn't be asking us to generate them for you.
if someone with natural weapons (such as a breath weapon) was dropped into a modern-day world, how would they handle zones (like a courthouse) where the carriage of weapons is forbidden, even in places that are relatively tolerant to weapon carriage?
I think I see a pattern in questions that I don't like - questions which are asked for the sake of asking questions
Random scenarios that pop into people's heads and have nothing to do with any actual worldbuilding aside from the flavor they throw in, or the excuse they make up
Any REAL questions tend to come with extensive research done beforehand