wrt bounty text real hard stuff for me are reward-answer bounties. For these, I try to do my best to get the message across. An example at Programmers (quite a pity messages aren't kept so it will go away after awarding:
> This answer is exemplary and worthy of an additional bounty. "That's right, let's start talking about a monad..."
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I am writing a Java web application that consists mainly of a bunch of similar pages in which every page has several tables and a filter that applies to those tables. The data on these tables comes from an SQL database.
I am using myBatis as ORM, which may not be the best choice in my case, sinc...
there's a link, and bold font and all the bells and whistles
@RhysW well I think it has got rather decent attention. It's not considered a hot topic despite the word "hotness" :)
thing is, not much sites that suffer directly. Programmers and Workplace are top victims I think
many other sites are sort of "protected", we discussed it in another MSO question...
@Sklivvz yeah I heard about that. I think rules allowing mods to unilaterally delete
meh answers do a good job of taming the problem, be it concrete-programming at SO or famous back-it-up at Skeptics. At sites I am active though (Programmers and Workplace), such formal rules are hard to impossible to establish. I for one would not want to rely on mod discretion splitting meh and okay answers neither at Programmers nor at Workplace (with all due respect). —
gnat Jul 26 at 11:52
The topics accepted by Programmers and TWP are...
problematic when it comes to objective evaluations of answers. But then, that's why these sites
exist... —
Shog9 Jul 26 at 15:10
simply speaking, at Workplace and Programmers, there isn't objective criteria that would allow you to flag a meh answer and expect it deleted
By the way sort of "protected" I mention above, is not quite full protection. I mean,...
...really, say guys at SO are protected from direct impact. Meaning when they see meh, they can flag no-code and get crap deleted. But thing is, it's SO users who look at collider and who visit "sticky" questions and who pick the crappy attitude and they get back to SO and get posting meh answers there
and, well, there are hundreds and thousands of them. And meh attitude gets spread over multiple questions and SO mods only can delete minor part of crap that has been influenced through collider
> they start thinking it's the norm. That's what low quality answers in hot questions teach readers. That's what "educated" readers spread further, to their answers to other questions. That lowers overall quality of answers in multiple other questions, that is the site-wide damage
> This makes it look like good questions are those having many meh answers, the effect that is amplified by these questions being highly visible to collider audience - hundreds and thousands of SE users. Misguided users spread acquired attitude further into other questions and answers, posting stuff that follows what they saw at the "cool" ("hot") questions.
nobody is really protected, collider spreads it across all the SE network
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