Math Meta Chat - 2018-06-29

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9:41 AM

Jyrki Lahtonen's post on Meta Stack Exchange:

Q: Why is SE giving so much attention to the "be nice"-policy?

Recently we have been treated to featured meta posts and blog posts about the importance of the "be nice"-policy, and how/why it should also apply to comments. This is all fine. Educating each other about how we see their actions is surely the best way forward. But, it seems to me the efforts o...

Well, there is an attempt, at least on SO, to dvelop a wizard-type interface to guide new accounts to cough up all the information that they have about their problems, instead of the all-too-common code dump and "doesn't work". I suspect it's too late to stave off the business-driven 'let the newbs post their homework dupes, we get ad-views and the curators work for free, so who cares' approach to moderation:( — Martin James 20 mins ago

The wizard sounds like a promising idea, @MartinJames. Can we have something similar on other largish SE-sites as well? I do realize that SO has seen everything Math.SE has, and I am also looking forward to hearing how they have dealt with related problems. Even though I lost the diamond powers I can still promote solutions :-) — Jyrki Lahtonen 16 mins ago

Wasn't this wizard also mentioned in some discussion on our local meta? In connection with the wizard, I'll remind of these posts - maybe slightly related: Examples and counterexamples of good questions and answers and Suggestions for examples of well-asked questions.

I found also this post from 2013 - probably well-ahead of its time: Should M.SE consider a Question Wizard Guide?

Q: Should M.SE consider a Question Wizard Guide?

After spending quite a bit of time doing thousands of reviews of first posts, suggested edits, editing questions and trying to understand the comments/concerns about the quality of the site, I am wondering if MSE should consider a Question Wizard Guide. This Wizard would 'unobtrusively' guide use...