Timeline for A "welcome to software engineering" comment for questionable questions
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| Jan 18, 2018 at 16:03 | history | edited | candied_orange | CC BY-SA 3.0 | edited title |
| Sep 19, 2016 at 6:24 | comment | added | Robert Harvey | You might find this interesting: meta.programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/8204 | |
| Sep 19, 2016 at 6:23 | comment | added | candied_orange | @RobertHarvey I'm trying. Thanks for showing an interest. You are the grand old master here so I welcome any input. | |
| Sep 19, 2016 at 6:17 | comment | added | Robert Harvey | I have about a 5% success rate convincing people to remove their off-topic questions themselves. Hopefully you can do better. | |
| Sep 19, 2016 at 6:14 | comment | added | candied_orange | @RobertHarvey Not saying it's better than the interstitial page idea or that it'll work every time but after I've commented and voted to close I have seen a number of "This page has been voluntarily removed by it's author" messages. Isn't it better if they learn to clean things up themselves? | |
| Sep 19, 2016 at 6:03 | comment | added | Robert Harvey | No, but it's a shot in the dark. And it's a shot that happens after the person has already asked their off-topic question. | |
| Sep 19, 2016 at 5:56 | comment | added | candied_orange | @RobertHarvey If you look at my postings you'll see I have often followed this comment with a custom explanation. But before that I clearly show them the rules. Since we don't have an interstitial page I'm basically doing it manually. Have you noticed any problems with how I've used it? | |
| Sep 19, 2016 at 5:48 | comment | added | Robert Harvey | Canned comments have a long history of poor results, both here and on Stack Overflow. Before you resort to using canned comments, consider either taking the time to write a very brief, custom explanation in your comment instead, or refrain from commenting altogether and let your downvotes and close votes do the talking. | |
| Sep 19, 2016 at 3:32 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackProgrammer/status/777711972406136832 | ||
| Sep 17, 2016 at 9:15 | answer | added | Doc Brown | timeline score: 3 | |
| Sep 17, 2016 at 8:02 | comment | added | Doc Brown | It seems this is your answer to my former meta question How to improve our style for reacting on “low quality questions”. | |
| Sep 16, 2016 at 15:40 | history | edited | candied_orange | CC BY-SA 3.0 | deleted 33 characters in body |
| Sep 8, 2016 at 18:31 | comment | added | candied_orange | @RobertHarvey won't argue the need to close. Just saying I learned more from the people who took the time to yell at me. :) | |
| Sep 8, 2016 at 17:03 | comment | added | Robert Harvey | Regarding reluctance to close... Closing off-topic questions should happen as quickly as possible. Questions that remain open provide no incentive for the OP to improve them. In practice, a very small percentage of questions ever improve enough to reopen, largely because, had the OP made the effort to find a suitable place to ask their question, they wouldn't have been off-topic in the first place. | |
| Sep 5, 2016 at 12:19 | comment | added | yannis Mod | Related: What Are Some Examples of Good “Guiding Comments” to Leave Users To Help Understand The Site? | |
| Sep 5, 2016 at 6:58 | history | edited | candied_orange | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 10 characters in body |
| Sep 5, 2016 at 5:12 | history | edited | candied_orange | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 4 characters in body |
| Sep 5, 2016 at 4:51 | history | edited | candied_orange | CC BY-SA 3.0 | edited title |
| Sep 5, 2016 at 4:49 | answer | added | candied_orange | timeline score: 16 | |
| Sep 5, 2016 at 4:41 | history | asked | candied_orange | CC BY-SA 3.0 |