@Chad that works only as long as Workplace is not yet widely popular. Think of like 10-20 "throwers" from over there. The more it is known the more people will misunderstand it (if not provided with better guidance). Think of 100-200 throwers a year later, 1000-2000 yet another year later (I think Programmers got like few thousands at least over its history). Throwing back too often means too much work (you've got only 24 close votes a day, that's not too much:)
Based on confusion by some of our regulars about what is on-topic, as well as confusion from regular users and mods who post here, and due to a request by gnat I think we need to create a quick 'What is on-topic?' FAQ to clearly state what is or isn't off-topic. I have tried this in the past, ...
Note I work in a high growth industry where workload is unpredictable - on one week we could have a sudden surge in clients, and the week thereafter there's an unexpected calm.
If I had scheduled time off during a week (and maybe I am on vacation abroad), and suddenly there's a huge client - wil...
@jmac Thanks, but my confusion has little to do with the help center, and everything to do with questions that are way off topic (as per the help center), yet are open and highly upvoted. This is what I meant with "The WP needs to get a bit better in advertising itself".
An old colleague asked me to recommend him for a job in my company. I'm hesitant because when we worked at the same company, he didn't have the best reputation. He constantly missed deadlines, never took accountability, and did the bare minimum to not get fired.
He told me that he wants to app...
Unfortunately, the developing country in which I reside seems to have a culture of "follow orders unquestioningly", and I rarely see people take proactive steps to solve problems. Instead, it's common for people to simply do nothing and wait for direction if something is not going exactly to plan...
I have extreme social anxiety (SA) and experience physical symptoms like shortness of breath, shaky hands and voice during social situations.
I work for a really big multinational. We have quarterly/pre-holiday team lunches on the company. There was one pre-xmas/end of year team lunch on the mid...
The problem is that when our regulars browse the site and see all those questions, they come back to ProgSE and flag a ton of similar questions for migration... And, I can't really blame them.
btw, the above are just examples. Let's not fixate on the examples.
@jmac That said, you are doing an awesome job here. Thanks for taking the time to write that Meta QA. When the site graduates, you should consider running for a diamond.
@YannisRizos that's a good observation. Though I doubt that Workplace could be "a good model of its own guidelines" (pitu that WSOiN is deleted), at least not in the coming year. Guidance woud better take it into account somehow...
> Avoid using existing (especially older) questions as an evidence that it's OK to ask similar ones. This would be a slippery approach due to subjective and quickly evolving nature of the site. Your safer bet would be to stick with the guidance provided here. If you notice that particular question somehow heavily 'dissonants' with what is stated here, just let us know and we'll take care of that.
I got a mail from my client saying "There is a cylinder in the AC compressor in front of the building that I believe the AC techs have left behind. This is freely standing without any form of security. Kindly notify your technician to have it picked up or properly secured."
How to handle this qu...
@YannisRizos I fully agree. We need to be more aggressive about editing/closing bad posts. Some of them are screwed over by the flood of people from a hot question (no normal question here gets +74 score), and some of them due to ambivalence. Right now I'm trying to work on cleaning up bad answers because they are low-hanging fruit and easy to find:
Please vote on this week's question below.
Back in May 2012, Rarity asked about how we should deal with bad or "me too" answers:
Do we need a policy on bad/"me too" answers?
More recently, bad deleted posts pushed one of enderland's questions in to CW mode causing much gnashing of teeth:
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After bad answers get handled, we can work on handling bad questions. The issue is trying to find them. If you have any idea (short of browsing through all questions), I'd love to hear it, otherwise the closing will be far less difficult than actually finding them.
(unfortunately close votes expire even on beta sites, which may turn in to a bit of a problem on questions that were re-opened, or didn't get that last vote, or were asked right before a big hot question flooded our ability to handle queues)
Based on confusion by some of our regulars about what is on-topic, as well as confusion from regular users and mods who post here, and due to a request by gnat I think we need to create a quick 'What is on-topic?' FAQ to clearly state what is or isn't off-topic. I have tried this in the past, ...
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