Questions tagged [fastest-gun]
A recognized issue on Stack Exchange sites in which the first answer posted gets the most reputation; that is, the "fastest gun in the West" wins.
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Let's shoot down the Fastest Swag-Hunter in the West
The Bad Guy If you have competed in one of the Stack Exchange competitions which run here on Meta from time to time, you know all about the Fastest Gun in the West Problem. This problem is ...
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Change display order of answers in contests
We have a second contest going on. And whenever we have these sort of things I see how unfair the voting system is. Whoever posts first, or quickly gets more votes, has a huge advantage, since most ...
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Add a 5-10 minute delay before being able to answer a question
As seen here, Stack Exchange has a problem where people are answering as quick as possible and putting minimal effort into their answers. To address this problem, I propose that there should be a 5-10 ...
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Is there a "Fastest Gun in the West" issue with self-answers?
After talking with a moderator on Gaming.SE, StrixVaria, regarding a question issue I have, I'm largely curious if there is an unspoken or somewhat hidden rule of not self-answering if you are high ...
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Award accepted answer reputation for finding duplicates verified by OP
Consider the following theoretical situation: New user asks a question: Why does my program process a sorted array faster than an unsorted array? I see this question, I can: Vote to close as ...
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Recognize edits that happened after the VLQ flag but during grace period as flag-validating ones
This feature request is posted as a follow-up to discussion in comments related to flagging very low quality "drafts" of fastest gun answers: edits to a post flagged as Very Low Quality will ...
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How big is the Fastest Gun in the West bias?
One of the earliest phenomena noticed in Stack Overflow's voting system is the FGITW problem: the first answer is more likely to get upvotes than subsequent answers. Even if later answers are ...
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Fastest Gun + Answering (Generally) Same Question Twice
I've encountered a situation here where the poster of that answer has not only posted rather quickly (before the OP has had a chance to clarify their question), but has also posted two answers back-to-...
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Chat vs. Q&A - How to get their Maximum Advantage?
I am very glad that I can get the fastest answers to my (simple) questions in chat rooms. However, questions and answers in the chat room are not all that easily accessible to people outside the ...
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What to do with my answers that appear duplicate? [duplicate]
This is partly in reference to Senior Members Stealing Answers and Out-voting Sometimes when posting answer on Stackoveflow I find my self posting same answer as someone else at almost exactly same ...
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7 votes
2 answers
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Asking questions in the Answer just to get the first spot
I've seen this a few times now on StackOverflow, instead of using the comments to ask for additional information, a user will add an answer asking their questions. Then, when they get the information ...
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Can we implement a dead time on answers for high reputation user
Summary: High reputation users on SO come swooping in the second a simple question is posted, and get the first answer in before I've even opened my Python interpreter to test my idea out. This ...
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New Badge Idea: "Prestative" -> "Fissured" -> "Superhero"
Prestative(Bronze): Earned when you answer correct(accepted answer) 3 questions with a interval that is less than 120 minutes between each one. Fissured(Silver): Earned when you answer correct(...
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2 answers
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Answers that doesn't provide more help than existing ones [duplicate]
For example, a user asked a question. Before long, an answer comes up, attempting to answer the question. Now, i've seen a lot of times that later, after about 15, 30 minutes, other answers popped ...
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6 votes
2 answers
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More SO users are not reading the post before replying or voting [closed]
This is definitely a tenuous question without any hard data, but I want an answer: Is the quality of the average SO user going down? A few years ago SO seemed to be both a source of good answers ...
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