Hmm. I guess everyone's got over it. I would have preferred ELL to go to beta and then get canned if it had been found to be unworkable.

FWIW, I think it would be shortsighted to allow EL&U to be overrun with basic 'English homework' questions. If most of the questions on the front page are homework, the interesting questions will get lost, and (more importantly) there won't be any answers: who wants to act as an unpaid English teacher for the whole world? So the site collapses under the weight of trivia. It's happened elsewhere, but I think EL&U should be better than that.

Well, for those who don't know, ELL has been reopened.

@KitFox Hi, KitFox. I'll be responding to that in due course. I was also very much taken with your proposition to "encourage our high rep users to post one good question every week"; though not yet a "high-rep" user I'm going to take that to heart, and I'd like to see it as a post on ELU Meta.

Hmm. I don't think it would be appropriate for me to post it. Maybe someone else could.

looks @StoneyB

Is "high-rep" necessary? I don't know whether I count as high rep or not (12k on ELU) but giving answers which the community rates is not necessarily a good guide to being able to ask good questions!

I should say that high-rep is not really a requirement, except insofar as it is a measure of community investment.

In such case, I think anyone over 3K is vested.

3K+ has close vote power.

They can influence the site more than just by posting questions and answers.

I stopped posting questions sometime after I hit 3K, and stopped contributing directly to the Q&A when I got to 10K.

It's not that I don't care about the site—obviously I do since I have a diamond after my name—but there is a point where I started feeling more like a caretaker and less like a participant.

The number of questions I've asked on Main is a very round figure.

I think a lot of users have the same thing happen.

@AndrewLeach Circular even?

@KitFox Yup.

Perhaps more elliptical than circular.

Depends on your font, I suppose.

The idea is that eventually we shift from asking to answering to voting to close.

And somewhere after we have the ability to vote to close, we stop asking the kinds of questions we want to see on our site.

Which is unfortunate, because users with high reps should be setting those examples out there for the newbies, instead of just complaining about what the new users post.

Yes. I missed out a stage.

But it seems might be better to add at the end of that sequence.

@KitFox If you like, I'll post it ... but it won't happen til after I get off work in 8-9 hours. Or somebody else can pick the ball up. But I think these ideas need to get out of this backroom and into the bar.

(As you've done with your above-referenced post)