Timeline for Why so many negative votes here?
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| Jan 9, 2014 at 18:47 | comment | added | gnat | @GlenH7 I'm OK with the allegory, I commented on the statement that doesn't look allegoric at all. And what's wrong with comparing to Workplace? I am active at both sites and I find them pretty similar in terms of good and bad questions and closures. And it's really sad to see how much more active they are at reopenings. There's more regulars involved in edits, and more related activities in chat / meta there. I see comments complaining about closures less often there, because instead of whining, TWP regulars simply edit and vote reopen. Would be great if Programmers follow their example | |
| Jan 9, 2014 at 16:31 | comment | added | user53019 | @gnat - the answer was specifically opened with Allow me to illustrate with an allegory and no mention was made of relative volume compared to other sites. While I'm a fan of hyperbole, the rhetoric in your comment is a bit past the mark. Try to remove any personal projections you may have from reading that paragraph and try to look at it again objectively. The tools and "rewards" SE provides are heavily weighted towards closing as opposed to encouraging constructive edits to bring within current guidelines. | |
| Jan 9, 2014 at 14:55 | comment | added | gnat | "concerned citizens try to help by casting reopen votes, or editing questions" -- you got to be kidding. At Programmers, I see like 5x-10x less of such an activity, compared to much smaller Workplace.SE. That's... laughable. After Rachel "unsubscribed", my reopen and revocations of close votes here are more frequently triggered by edits done by inexperienced askers than by those of long term regulars (latter coming almost exclusively from @GlenH7) | |
| Jan 7, 2014 at 18:52 | comment | added | user53019 | Many of the most active of the reviewers are frequently in chat (or are happy enough to drop in), and it's fair game to ask someone why they chose to vote in a particular manner. For example, I have called out when I thought close-as-duplicate votes weren't quite close enough. Likewise, I've been called out for leaving things open that others thought should have been closed. | |
| Jan 7, 2014 at 18:48 | comment | added | user53019 | I think you have a valid point regarding the ability to track questions and be notified if they get closed. MSO requests along those lines haven't been prioritized by SE though. We are getting more close & reopen reviewers, so I think questions nominated for reopening have a better chance of being seen. More reviewers also allows for a better reflection of the community. Also keep in mind that you can use The Whiteboard to harangue either the initial flaggers or their lemming-like posse (of which I can be accused of belonging to.) | |
| Jan 6, 2014 at 23:10 | history | answered | Karl Bielefeldt | CC BY-SA 3.0 |