Timeline for Draft of a new policy for our site
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:46 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://pm.stackexchange.com/ with https://pm.stackexchange.com/
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| Jul 3, 2012 at 6:57 | comment | added | jmort253 Mod | +1 to that. You're absolutely right! Editing is our best tool for improving questions/answers. Even anonymous users can suggest edits... I'm glad I didn't delete that, and trust me I wanted to! With that said, we shouldn't be afraid to close questions that don't fit, even if it's just to edit them and reopen them... When I stopped closing questions, I noticed people stopped trying to improve them when I only left comments. It's important for us to educate the community that closing is oftentimes just a temporary state to give the question some time to evolve, if it can be improved, of course. | |
| Jul 3, 2012 at 6:50 | comment | added | Pawel Brodzinski | Actually I believe what happened with this answer is what we want to see. You've pointed out why it isn't relevant. The guy even tried to improve it (which is a very positive sign) but even then it is hardly on topic, so I downvote it so I make sure it doesn't even flow among 0-point answers. With the place on the bottom of the list secured I'm good with such answer. Anyway, the guy still can edit the answer heavily or simply remove it. | |
| Jul 3, 2012 at 6:41 | comment | added | jmort253 Mod | Right ;) I'm not sure how much it helps in this case. But surely you know the answers we're all thinking of, the ones where you really question whether or not the person answering has any idea what he's talking about, like this guy who claims to have an MBA, doesn't answer the question, and regurgitates some basic Introductory Business 101 material. As a community -- not through moderator actions -- how do you think we should handle these situations? Could the back it up "guideline" (emphasis added) be enough in this case? | |
| Jul 3, 2012 at 6:28 | comment | added | Pawel Brodzinski | @jmort253 - I didn't feel singled out :) I did this experiment on purpose. If we had such a strict rule I would probably do the same exercise when answering (because I definitely would answer the question). I'm just not sure if this is improvement. Now, everyone can judge it by themselves, seeing both versions of the answer. | |
| Jul 3, 2012 at 6:25 | comment | added | jmort253 Mod | Hi Pawel, we aren't trying to single you out but needed a good example from a top user to focus our discussion here. I hope we didn't offend you. You always post great stuff! With that said, if this were posted as a guideline, would you be willing to help enforce it when there's controversy in answers, using comments and downvotes? Where do you see the boundary as to when a user should cite a reference/experiences vs when it can be overlooked? | |
| Jul 3, 2012 at 6:04 | history | answered | Pawel Brodzinski | CC BY-SA 3.0 |