Timeline for Should we avoid the low rep voting experiment?
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| Sep 21, 2023 at 21:35 | comment | added | wizzwizz4 Mod | @davidbak It's not your suggestion, but your (and another-dave's) comments finally got me to post Do we want Discussions functionality on Retrocomputing?. | |
| Sep 20, 2023 at 23:50 | comment | added | dave | @davidbak re comments - agree; there is often much value and certainly much of interest in the discussion. The Q, in this garrulous old geezer's opinion, is merely the prompt. | |
| Sep 20, 2023 at 20:16 | history | edited | wizzwizz4Mod | CC BY-SA 4.0 | added 120 characters in body |
| Sep 20, 2023 at 18:16 | comment | added | wizzwizz4 Mod | I've noticed that sort of behaviour a bit. Moderators won't have particular insight into that (we mostly handle flags, meta, and talking to the company… and, in a past life, tagging), so I'll leave that question open to others. (Or you could start a new meta question, if you actually want an answer / detailed discussion.) | |
| Sep 20, 2023 at 18:14 | comment | added | wizzwizz4 Mod | @davidbak It's definitely not just you. Unfortunately, there are many problems with using comments that way (not least that the presence of certain keywords allows drive-by deletion by unprivileged users): sometimes the chat migration feels like a lesser evil. Though… if we ask really really really nicely, we might be able to get some comment-related features cribbed from Discussions (a recent Stack Overflow Collectives thing). | |
| Sep 20, 2023 at 18:13 | comment | added | davidbak | As a moderator I'm wondering if you see interesting behavior from low-rep visitors to retro - i.e., newcomers to the site. The obvious is that a lot of newcomers don't really understand the limits of "retro" and ask questions inappropriate for the site. And that includes the edge-case of asking about old video games (discussed here recently). | |
| Sep 20, 2023 at 17:50 | comment | added | davidbak | I'd like to run an experiment here where we left long comment threads around. (I mean we tend to do that, but sometimes they do get moved to chat where they die.) It's just the way this particular stack works. Not to unfairly generalize from me to all of you - but I don't think it's just me that's a garrulous old geezer contributing useful and relevant information in the form of comments. (Though maybe it is.) | |
| Sep 20, 2023 at 17:19 | comment | added | wizzwizz4 Mod | Probably. I mean, something like “10k users should get a double upvote” might not fly, but they'd change most of the numbers on this page if we asked nicely, and I think they'd consider other things too. | |
| Sep 20, 2023 at 17:17 | comment | added | manassehkatz-Moving 2 Codidact | I'm sure they'd let us Really? | |
| Sep 20, 2023 at 17:16 | history | answered | wizzwizz4Mod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |