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12:15 PM

Q: Badly received question about Hamas corruption

About a month ago, I asked two parallel questions: Checks against corruption in the Palestinian Authority and their effectiveness Checks against corruption in Gaza, and their effectiveness The first question received modest upvotes and a comprehensive and excellent answer. The second question r...

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Ekadh Singh

2:50 PM

I’ve noticed on our area 51 site there are two goals we don’t meet. 10 qpd is obviously quite difficult, but we seem close enough to 2.5 answers per question. Do y’all think that is feasible?

CDJB

3:30 PM

Using Glorfindel's query from here - seems doable over time.

Not sure whether chasing that figure encourages very good behaviour though - the formula seems to be (sum of answers not deleted) / (number of questions with at least one answer that are not deleted) - so answering unanswered questions would drop the ratio.

Ekadh Singh

4:02 PM

Huh, making answering unanswered questions drop the ratio is an… interesting choice.

JJJ

4:12 PM

Do those metrics still matter? I think other sites have since graduated regardless of those metrics.

CDJB

If Windows Phone can graduate, I think we're definitely overdue.

JJJ

Well, I guess with three question so far this year it's easier to hit that answer ratio :P

Ekadh Singh

5:02 PM

Is there any way to measure how well we are moderated compared to other sites (some kinda SEDE query or other stuff)?

JJJ

@EkadhSingh How would you qualify measured? Time it takes for reviews to complete?

Ekadh Singh

I have no idea 😅. I was just thinking we were fairly actively moderated and wanted to know if there’s any way to quantify that into numbers, and compare us against other sites. Something like time it takes for reviews to complete would make a lot of sense.

CDJB

There's the "A year in moderation" posts on meta - here's the 2020 one.

JJJ

Yea, I don't have a query but I think we have a very active userbase where the queue is well maintained. I guess it also helps that we only require beta-site rep levels so that many users can access the queues. But also our higher rep users don't seem to mind spending time in the queues.

Compare that to Stack Overflow where the queues are so long (so it seems like there's no end to it), many review tasks seem like doing the same task (so you get bored), and once you get going a bit you might get tricked by a fake review task.

ELU just switched to 3 close votes to make closing questions more manageable. I sometimes like to browse those queues but I think the atmosphere here is better.

Meta Politics

5:55 PM

Q: Can we move out of beta now?

Note: this is not a duplicate of this question because that is tagged discussion while this is tagged feature-request Here are the reasons why I think we should be graduated: Politics stack exchange has plenty of active users, and moderation happens fairly quickly It has been my expierence (don...