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James
James
10:09
It's been a long time since I last posted and I came with what I thought was a pretty specialist question. https://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/105101/what-is-the-difference-between-4th-generation-sequencing-and-ngs

But the community is starting to close the question. "Back in my day" we closed questions that one could google trivially as homework. Is there a new litmus test?
Chris
Chris
@James No, not really. But there are a few users which seem to see this much more strict (it is kind of the same with discussion what to include into the Wikipedia) and vote like it.
The other problem is that we don't have too many really active users and a lot of people who drop off a question and are gone after it, which makes getting good answers harder.
I find the question interesting, but I can't really answer it, since this is not really my field.
James
James
10:30
@Chris I see. I think active user retention seems to be an issue. I am still in the top 25 users somehow!

Just to put this question in the context of how difficult it is to get ones head around, I scheduled a call with reps at Oxford Nanopore to get their take on this! It is not somehting that is just readily available in a text book. I've got some more meetings set up to get to the bottom of this and will try to do a self Q&A if nothing else comes up! The answer there already kind of hits the nail on the head as far as I can tell.
Chris
Chris
I know you are. And by getting there it should be clear that you know the difference between a good question and homework.
And yes, obviously it is not a textbook answerable question, but an interesting one. I look forward for an answer.
James
James
11:19
@Chris Well this is what I wanted to check. The comunity can move on and become more strict and that is absolutely fine. It has always been a challenge defining what is "low effort" so I had just assumed a change had happened in favour of more effort required and wanted to check in here just to get a flavour. Thanks for taking a look and getting back to me :)
Chris
Chris
Yeah sure. I am also not always too happy with the sometimes pretty negative stance against questions.
 
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Bryan Krause
Bryan Krause
14:15
@James Usually the thing that "good questions that nonetheless attract close votes" have in common is that they are not well-referenced. They might seem to be low effort because the OP hasn't explicitly shown it, even if the underlying question is quite difficult to answer simply and OP has made their best effort behind the scenes. Yours doesn't follow that pattern, though

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