Timeline for User flooding the site with questions - more than 6/day
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| Aug 14, 2010 at 19:35 | comment | added | T.. | +1. re: "...and have as few not-so-good [questions] as possible": I think this is impossible. Mediocrity predominates, almost by definition, and particularly on an all-of-math site with a broad and unrestricted user base. WHICH IS ABSOLUTELY FINE provided that filtering and amelioration mechanisms are available and are themselves sharpened over time (e.g., new FAQs, more tags, more editors who can improve questions, additional informative numerical ratings, branching into subject-specific sites like stat.SE and calculus.SE, cross-fertilization with Wikipedia, ...). | |
| Aug 13, 2010 at 23:22 | comment | added | Bill Dubuque | @George. Yes, it had occurred to me too that perhaps he was simply going through a backlog of "open" questions. But even if so, it would be better to not pose them so quickly. As it is he's probably having difficulty finding enough time to properly engage the answerers and/or digest the replies. Such engagement is crucial to keeping experts interested. There needs to be two way engagement to keep a healthy balance of students and experts. E.g. experts would leave if they thought they were simply replying to random questions posted by some AI program. | |
| Aug 13, 2010 at 22:53 | comment | added | Jonathan Fischoff | @George +1 This is a good observation. I understand where Bill is coming from, but I agree that new users follow this pattern. | |
| Aug 13, 2010 at 22:33 | comment | added | user1119 | @Bill Dubuque: It appears to me that the user is simply using a chance to ask problems that he encountered through the course of his study and didn't have much of an opportunity to discuss previously. He seems to have taken care to ask good quality questions. This is not sustainable. After a while the rate should peter out. If the problem continues then there needs to be more discussion. But as of now I would rather welcome the positive activity on this fledgling site. | |
| Aug 13, 2010 at 22:28 | comment | added | Bill Dubuque | @George. It seems to me that the user is not giving the questions serious thought before posting them. Imho, that's not a behavior that should be encouraged. | |
| Aug 13, 2010 at 22:19 | comment | added | user1119 | @Bill Dubuque: At least as of now there is nothing wrong with that. The user is clearly not asking trivial homework questions. You seek reputation by answering questions; some users seek reputation by providing questions. Both are important for the site. But an upvote on a question gives only 5 rep whereas an upvote on an answer gives 10 rep. So things are in fact in favor of people who answer questions. | |
| Aug 13, 2010 at 22:19 | comment | added | BBischof | @Bill This is why we have started a thread about how to make his questions better. In fact, he has already started to show great improvement in the quality of his questions. In general, if the questions are good, they are good, it matters not who posts them. And being random problems out of a book doesn't sound very good to me :/ | |
| Aug 13, 2010 at 22:16 | comment | added | Bill Dubuque | The problem with this viewpoint is that anyone could simply pull many questions out of problem books, journals etc as a quick way of attempting to quickly gain reputation. | |
| Aug 13, 2010 at 21:56 | comment | added | user1119 | I support Matt E.'s view. The site needs good questions and this user is contributing them more than anybody else. Thus in fact he should given more acclaim than others. | |
| Aug 13, 2010 at 21:48 | comment | added | Tom Stephens | as pieces of math they are excellent - but as questions to a site like this they are very poorly posed. | |
| Aug 13, 2010 at 21:47 | history | answered | Matt E | CC BY-SA 2.5 |