Timeline for What can be done about repetitive questions?
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| May 23, 2017 at 12:36 | history | edited | CommunityBot | replaced http://stackoverflow.com/ with https://stackoverflow.com/ | |
| Aug 22, 2015 at 20:38 | comment | added | mario | 2015: We do have lots of great reference questions meanwhile. And while it hasn't completely solved the repetition patterns, they're now easier to deal with. New users are way better served with concise summaries and even cross-referenced answer links. Both the new search function and duplicate auto suggestion did help. Yet newcomers still stumble over heaps of not-so-stellar "try this / try that" answers when researching topics. (I generally think it more believable now when questions start with "Searched this for hours, but couldn't find a suitable answer). | |
| Nov 22, 2010 at 15:56 | comment | added | Aarobot | @radp: Yes, eliminating dupe rep is an important part of the solution. However, as long as the questions get answered at all, it encourages the vamps. | |
| Nov 22, 2010 at 15:49 | comment | added | badp | @Aarobot The problem, as this answer puts it, is that easier questions generally bring you more (or far more) reputation than others, because they get far more traffic and far more people vote on the topic. The solution, then, is reducing the rep involved. | |
| Nov 22, 2010 at 15:41 | comment | added | Aarobot | @radp: We shouldn't be dicks to anybody, but neither should we reward help vampires - and unfortunately, the latter is exactly what both the system and community actively and consistently do. | |
| Nov 22, 2010 at 15:09 | comment | added | badp | -1 for suggesting we should be dicks to askers. | |
| Nov 22, 2010 at 10:07 | comment | added | Pekka | I don't think regular expressions are going to work here, but plan B has a point. One deterrent to answer dupes that has been discussed is not to give reputation for them - there are some questions, like the one you mention, that I would like to see that for. | |
| Nov 22, 2010 at 6:20 | history | answered | mario | CC BY-SA 2.5 |