Timeline for Does Graphic Design have a low voting problem?
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| Sep 13, 2012 at 19:08 | comment | added | Joonas | @Farray Yeah, true. | |
| Sep 13, 2012 at 18:59 | comment | added | Farray Mod | @Joonas We both have asthma on this one - or, at least, I don't think anyone is pretending the car isn't smoking. :p Either way, you're right that we're screwed on this issue unless they can turn the bumping off. We average under 6 Qs per day. The front page has ~50(?) Qs listed. That means that if Community bumps 1 Q each day, the front page will routinely have ~7 Community-bumped questions (which generally aren't good questions on this site). | |
| Sep 13, 2012 at 18:47 | comment | added | Joonas | @Farray but I think only one or two community posts can be fair to be voted down at the moment. At least the one where the OP showed no interest to make it clear what he wanted. In other cases, it would just be dumb to vote down completely good questions, and if that is the only thing that can be done currently, then why not just drop the feature for now? ...put it somewhere else? ..or something? I feel like we're driving a smoking car and basically saying "shh... it's all we have, so let's just drive forward." ..and I'm the one with asthma. :) | |
| Sep 13, 2012 at 16:43 | comment | added | Farray Mod | @Joonas - "If something is very wrong with a question, I just think it would be better to leave it floating around where most of us will never see it." I agree completely, but the only way SE engine can determine if something is "very wrong" is by votes and flags. Hence poor content should be voted-down, flagged, closed, whatever, and good content should be voted-up. | |
| Sep 13, 2012 at 7:44 | comment | added | Joonas | I need to eat some of my words. I did say it, but I don't think community bumping is useless feature. There has been lot of discussions about why the site is not super popular and how we could make it better. I feel that it might be better for the site if community bumping was relocated ( or that there would be like a page for questions that need love from the community.. or something ). With a healthier site the community bumping wouldn't be so bad, but here, in my opinion, it just mostly amplifies any negative thoughts about the site that people may have. | |
| Sep 13, 2012 at 6:46 | history | edited | Joonas | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 12 characters in body |
| Sep 13, 2012 at 6:44 | comment | added | Joonas | @Farray If something is very wrong with a question, I just think it would be better to leave it floating around where most of us will never see it. "Out of sight out of mind" ..and if new users see that the first 4 posts are old posts that didn't do so well, I don't think they will immediately think "Yeah! I'm gonna go answer that." Perhaps rather something like "Wow, this site must be really dead..." Though that is just my opinion. By the way, took a closer look at the community bumped questions still left in the front page and added something at the bottom of my post. | |
| Sep 13, 2012 at 6:40 | history | edited | Joonas | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 707 characters in body |
| Sep 13, 2012 at 4:59 | comment | added | Farray Mod | @Joonas I believe "the reasons why most of these questions are unanswered" is because most of them are not good/interesting questions. Community bumps unanswered questions - and if a question is very old and has no answers, there is probably something wrong with the question (excepting point #5 from your list). | |
| Sep 12, 2012 at 23:07 | comment | added | Joonas | @Farray I just don't think we can do much about it. I mean, considering the reasons why most of these questions are unanswered. Should a good question be downvoted because the person who asked it is no longer active? It is kind of a double edged sword.. :/ | |
| Sep 12, 2012 at 22:42 | comment | added | Farray Mod | meta.graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/178/… I wasn't too fond of Jeff's answer at the time, but lately I've thought more of it. If old questions truly just suck, they need to be downvoted or closed or edited into better questions. It is my understanding that closed/very-low-score questions won't get bumped. | |
| Sep 12, 2012 at 22:30 | comment | added | Yisela | I was thinking of Ryan's question too while I was reading your answer. The bumping would be less traumatic if there was a way to mark questions as answered after the OP has gone missing for a certain time. I understand the reasons behind not marking them, but at the same time it feels so... frustrating. There's something about those limbo questions that makes me feel existential angst. | |
| Sep 12, 2012 at 21:50 | history | edited | Joonas | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 47 characters in body |
| Sep 12, 2012 at 21:48 | comment | added | Joonas | @user568458 Not really. As far as I can see, he was trying to figure out how to solve the same problem that community bumping was probably meant to solve or reduce. My point is simply that I see community bumping as a useless feature. | |
| Sep 12, 2012 at 16:27 | comment | added | user56reinstatemonica8 | Ryan very recently made almost the same point: meta.graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/401/… | |
| Sep 12, 2012 at 13:09 | history | edited | Joonas | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 250 characters in body |
| Sep 12, 2012 at 13:03 | history | answered | Joonas | CC BY-SA 3.0 |