Timeline for Should Physics enable a "triage" review queue for homework-like questions?
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| Oct 10, 2021 at 15:38 | comment | added | Peter Mortensen | This was referenced in the 2021-10-09 MSE post Help Center still says that Triage is "Stack Overflow only"; however, it's enabled on Physics since September. | |
| Oct 10, 2021 at 13:10 | history | edited | robMod | edited tags | |
| Oct 9, 2021 at 14:30 | answer | added | Glorfindel | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jul 19, 2021 at 17:22 | comment | added | Catija StaffMod | Since this feature (for network-wide release) is still in development, we can't add it here at this point in time, thus the status-deferred tag. That said, considerations like those proposed in Brick's answer are things that are great to hear about - we think that hiding questions that are in Triage from the front page is a great idea and will address a lot of the issues that some sites experience with new questions. While it's not what we do in general because it's not usually necessary on SO (since the front page is so active), we should consider it as part of the network-wide feature. | |
| Jul 19, 2021 at 17:19 | history | edited | CatijaStaffMod | edited tags | |
| Jul 15, 2021 at 16:28 | vote | accept | robMod | ||
| Jul 11, 2021 at 2:33 | history | edited | ChrisMod | edited tags | |
| Jul 6, 2021 at 2:14 | comment | added | rob Mod | @EmilioPisanty See this 2018 post which refers to Triage as “a pre-filter for the home page.” That post points out that, on SO, most questions aren’t found directly from the home page, but presents data claiming that questions which leave Triage as “unsalvageable” still have fewer average views than questions which leave Triage as “looks good.” | |
| Jul 5, 2021 at 18:11 | comment | added | Emilio Pisanty | It would be good to have a definitive statement regarding whether an incomplete (or failed) Triage review would keep a question off of the home page. | |
| Jul 4, 2021 at 13:26 | history | edited | robMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Clarify that this isn’t a moderator-only feature. |
| Jul 4, 2021 at 12:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackPhysics/status/1411656053066973185 | ||
| Jul 4, 2021 at 4:02 | answer | added | Brick | timeline score: 14 | |
| Jul 4, 2021 at 2:13 | comment | added | Brick | The triage queue is and has been an integral part of stackoverflow as long as I’ve been part of it. Checking the network profiles of those who seem to think this wouldn’t be useful so far, I notice little or no activity there - not enough for activity in the triage queue. As a person who has done more than 1,100 triage reviews, I think this is the single most important review queue of them all. Will try to formulate that into a full answer soon. | |
| Jul 4, 2021 at 2:09 | comment | added | rob Mod | @Brick What I have written here is somewhat more than 100% of what I understand about the Triage queue. I have the idea that, as part of enabling the queue, there might be a trial period where we could see what the algorithm flags without it actually keeping things off of the front page. But at this moment I don't recall whether that's a real feature I read about, or something that happened on SO in the distant past when this feature appeared there, or an idea that I had on my own with no connection to SE's capabilities. | |
| Jul 3, 2021 at 23:31 | answer | added | StephenG - Help Ukraine | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jul 3, 2021 at 22:22 | comment | added | Brick | "Attempting to train Stack Exchange's AI to keep low-effort homework questions off of the front page — is that a reasonable goal?" - My understanding was that the system would learn from the results of the reviews automatically, but the way you wrote this might imply that someone would have to sit down separately to give it a training set. It's the former, right? In which case, I don't see what the burden would be over what's happening now. If it's a big separate job to get it started, then the cost might matter. | |
| Jul 3, 2021 at 13:42 | comment | added | alephzero | This is only a question at all to people who think that SE's rules and ethos are in some sense "important". Clearly the people who ask and answer HW-type questions do not. Whether that is from ignorance or from deliberately ignoring the rules is beside the point - the only point is that SE is not providing what that subset of its users want. (My personal view is that the objective of SE to be a "global repository of excellence" is frankly ridiculous - and I've seen plenty of other failed attempts at the same thing on the internet, started by people with more ambition than common sense.) | |
| Jul 3, 2021 at 11:30 | history | became hot meta post | |||
| Jul 3, 2021 at 7:00 | answer | added | John Rennie | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jul 3, 2021 at 1:34 | comment | added | rob Mod | Kudos to @tpg2114 for having this idea. | |
| Jul 3, 2021 at 1:28 | history | asked | robMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |