room topic changed to SE Podcast Live Chat: Watch Live: s.tk/livestream / Next Episode: Wednesday 12/7 @ 4:00pm ET w/ Robert Cartaino and Rebecca Chernoff (no tags)
So change of plans - we're actually doing a podcast on Wednesday @ 4pm - tune in!
I was going to ask if Alex could flip the video around so that we'd be able to view the podcast as rchern does, but I'll consider this new camera angle backwards enough.
room topic changed to SE Podcast Live Chat: Watch Live: http://s.tk/livestream / Next Episode: Wednesday 12/7 @ 4:00pm ET w/ Robert Cartaino and Rebecca Chernoff (no tags)
Perhaps rather than trying to analyze questions yourself, why not ask the users to 'judge' 10 random questions on Meta. The answers from the users will tell you a lot about the site as well (especially if you disagree with them)
At Stack Exchange, we stop in now and then to check on how each site is doing. As part of this, we like to take a few questions and compare them against the wisdom of The Greater Internet. This gives us a pretty good idea of which sites are progressing, and which are struggling... But it doesn't ...
I get you guys are just trying this stuff out, but would it hurt to just try the same on most 'old' beta sites? I mean what do you have to lose? And you could always ask again in a couple of months
They don't want to pay people to create content, but giving people games in exchange for them asking questions about them is ok? That's an interesting distinction
I don't think we're phoning it in but I do think that, as the network grows, the Community team just isn't going to have the time to do the kind of work they do best.
@MichaelMrozek Well, technically it's giving people games with the expectation that they'll ask questions about them (and provide answers). The hope would be that by providing something to ask questions about, the questions come more organically than someone being paid to directly come up with content. Whether that's always true in practice is up for debate, of course.
Since I have a full-time job, I find difficult to do things I like, such as starting personal projects.
For example, I'm trying to listen to a webcast, which from time-to-time requires me to switch to the application to the slides, while reading and programming at the computer. But I often find ...
"Miscommunication in the proposal process" -- I'll say. It confuses the mind how often an area 51 site has a discussion on area 51, and then the same question comes up on their meta and they decide something different
@ChrisF Only programmers are obsessed with eliminating duplicated mistakes. Just because something was a mistake for programming questions doesn't mean it's a mistake for a more subjective topic.
@Joel Question for Robert: Wouldn't it be simpler to just create a catch-all site, answers.stackexchange.com, and split off topics as they grow large enough for their own sites?
@GraceNote Heh, I was committed to that site, but I bailed after I decided that there wasn't likely to be a lot of questions related to specifically what I do (and when I checked, it seemed I was right)
Questions about why Stack Overflow does not share rep with Meta Stack Overflow are met with the response that meta.stackoverflow and stackoverflow do not share a "parent-child relationship" like the other meta sites. For example, this response:
Stack Overflow isn't in a parent-child relations...
Questions about why Stack Overflow does not share rep with Meta Stack Overflow are met with the response that meta.stackoverflow and stackoverflow do not share a "parent-child relationship" like the other meta sites. For example, this response:
Stack Overflow isn't in a parent-child relations...
