Timeline for How do we stop the upvoting of incomplete questions and unattempted homework?
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| Oct 11, 2020 at 16:28 | comment | added | Marcus Müller | On one hand: yes, that exist, but on the other, as long as bad quality voting still works as swiftly, I'm not too worried. | |
| Oct 11, 2020 at 16:15 | comment | added | Chris Stratton | The real issue is not the shoddy drawing, but that so much critical information is missing that no actual answer can be created. Yet there's a faction that still hands out what I can at best assume are "participation" upvotes. Though I think we also see truly malicious upvoting, too, from those who have a fundamental disagreement with the idea of SE as being a specific tool, and want to see it diluted into an anything-goes by throwing chunks of wood in the mechanism. | |
| Oct 11, 2020 at 16:07 | comment | added | Marcus Müller | @ChrisStratton sure, that happens, mostly because we're a helpful community. That's a good thing. It's not a significant time-sink, though, usually. Homework questions, on the other hand, do make up a lot of our work | |
| Oct 11, 2020 at 16:06 | comment | added | Marcus Müller | immediately reacts relatively coherently: "hi, this is not how you ask. Put in some work, and search before asking". That's our only hope. As you say, if it requires 5 high-rep users on instant pagers to kill these, then the high-reps are not the solution (maybe we're even wrong then); the only solution is that even a first-time answerer knows to spot a homework-without-own-effort-question as spam. | |
| Oct 11, 2020 at 16:05 | comment | added | Chris Stratton | What boggles the mind is that those shoddy drawing posts do sometimes get upvotes! Homework is a particular example of the problem, but not unique. | |
| Oct 11, 2020 at 16:04 | comment | added | Marcus Müller | I think awareness helps there: We're not really against people answering these question (I personally don't care that OP won't learn a thing; I'm only slightly worried about watering down of degrees, and ultimately, that's a shortcoming of the examining academic institutions, not ours), we're mostly concerned because a) it absorbs time and b) it attracts more questions of the same type, which pulls down the quality of the site. We don't have the same problem with other low-quality posts (say, shoddy drawings in "I 2 lzy 2 rite full sentences" questions), because the whole community | |
| Oct 11, 2020 at 16:00 | comment | added | Chris Stratton | This would help. But many of these questions have existing equally valid close reasons, and we simply don't manage to marshal enough votes to get them closed. Especially not to close them before someone sneaks in with a response that fulfills the assignment without advancing the asker's understanding or education. If we don't manage to prevent the site from being useful as a homework doing service, then it inevitably becomes one, because the person who got their homework done here once, even if subsequently scolded, will try again for the next assignment. | |
| Oct 11, 2020 at 15:52 | history | answered | Marcus Müller | CC BY-SA 4.0 |