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Poll: What is your current Stack Overflow reputation?

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Re: Poll: What is your current Stack Overflow reputation?

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Post by NickLarsen »

JeremyBanks wrote: post #53
pmjordan wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The high-traffic tags are full of low-quality or frequently asked questions. The amount of duplication in e.g. the C++ tag is staggering, but there doesn't seem to be a conscious effort to enforce a no-duplicate policy of any kind. Picking out worthwhile questions is difficult with all that noise. Worse, the "unanswered" section is full of questions that have been answered, the asker just never bothered to click acce…

Regarding duplicates: they should be closed as duplicates of a canonical question, but the incentives all work against that so it rarely happens. There's a ten-month-old widely-supported proposal on meta meant to address this, but it hasn't received any comment from the Stack Exchange Inc. folks. http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/90620/134300

The duplicates issue is something a little more complicated than just having a canonical answer for everything and it comes down to the naming problem. People understand things in different ways, so having multiple ways of asking the same question, and different explanations of the answers can be very beneficial.

Re: Poll: What is your current Stack Overflow reputation?

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Post by cowkingdeluxe »

cruise02 wrote: post #124
georgieporgie wrote: post #116

I got tired of the thankless task of doing other peoples' work, along with the overzealous mods shutting down my questions in the most condescending tone possible. In particular, I recall going so far as to read vendor-specific documentation for someone, and providing example code to parse the binary data in question. It was probably an hour of my work and I didn't even get a 'thank you', much less any reputation bum…

> overzealous mods shutting down my questions in the most condescending tone possible. SO moderator here. We just click a link. The pre-defined close reasons are inserted automatically. No one is taking a tone with you.

The comments moderators post are pretty condescending. They turned me off from SO. Not to mention the condescending nature of your comment here.

Re: Poll: What is your current Stack Overflow reputation?

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Post by cruise02 »

cowkingdeluxe wrote: post #142
cruise02 wrote: post #124

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> overzealous mods shutting down my questions in the most condescending tone possible. SO moderator here. We just click a link. The pre-defined close reasons are inserted automatically. No one is taking a tone with you.

The comments moderators post are pretty condescending. They turned me off from SO. Not to mention the condescending nature of your comment here.

After calling us overzealous and condescending do you expect a hug?

Re: Poll: What is your current Stack Overflow reputation?

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Post by cruise02 »

georgieporgie wrote: post #125
cruise02 wrote: post #124

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> overzealous mods shutting down my questions in the most condescending tone possible. SO moderator here. We just click a link. The pre-defined close reasons are inserted automatically. No one is taking a tone with you.

We just click a link Comments. No one is taking a tone with you. Oh, the irony.

Comments. What about them? The close message is auto-inserted so we don't have to take the time to comment.

Irony, no. My tone here is a response to being called overzealous and condescending. It has nothing to do with my attitude when I'm acting as moderator on SO.

Re: Poll: What is your current Stack Overflow reputation?

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Post by jordangray »

simonsarris wrote: post #14

I participate a lot , but almost exclusively in the (HTML5) Canvas tag. Because I don't answer much else I've got a smallish reputation for a frequent visitor(12K). I'm the top answer-er for the Canvas tag, having answered around ~10% of all questions ever asked about Canvas on StackOverflow. I would say that reputation numbers don't necessarily measure engagement per se in S.O. very well. I've found that if I answer…

I completely agree about giving in-depth answers. There's nothing I love more than an answer that relies on either a) stuff I know or can do really well; or b) a bucketload of research. Several times I've went back to answers and edited them, even after an answer has already been chosen, because good answers are way more important to me than recognition.

Completely with you on the "thank yous" being the biggest motivating factor; I wouldn't care about the site if it weren't for those. That said, if you want to get your rep up without lowering your standards, one option for the high-traffic tags is to go for bounty questions. That way, if you give good answers, you get a reward which is commensurate with your time/expertise, and you know that the asker both appreciates the complexity of their question and is very keen to have an answer.

Re: Poll: What is your current Stack Overflow reputation?

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Post by caf »

njharman wrote: post #104
udp wrote: post #15

The problem with the SO reputation system is that one-sentence answers to some very basic problem end up earning you > 100 reputation, but a long, well-written answer to a niche question gets you maybe 10 or 20. I'm not really sure what the solution to this is (it's not dissimilar to the situation here since the comment scores got hidden).

Why is that a problem? Or, I think you may misunderstand how crowdsourcing works. One sentence answers are often exactly what crowd needs. Obviously so if they vote them up.

Well-written answers to niche questions are inherently worth more than simple answers to simple questions, because there is a much greater supply of the latter than the former.

Indeed the marginal value of the umpeenth identical answer to the same question is approximately zero, since it adds nothing to any of the earlier answers to the same question.

Re: Poll: What is your current Stack Overflow reputation?

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Post by lhnn »

georgieporgie wrote: post #125
cruise02 wrote: post #124

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> overzealous mods shutting down my questions in the most condescending tone possible. SO moderator here. We just click a link. The pre-defined close reasons are inserted automatically. No one is taking a tone with you.

We just click a link Comments. No one is taking a tone with you. Oh, the irony.

That word: I don't think it means what you think it means.

Re: Poll: What is your current Stack Overflow reputation?

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Post by bdg »

georgieporgie wrote: post #116

I got tired of the thankless task of doing other peoples' work, along with the overzealous mods shutting down my questions in the most condescending tone possible. In particular, I recall going so far as to read vendor-specific documentation for someone, and providing example code to parse the binary data in question. It was probably an hour of my work and I didn't even get a 'thank you', much less any reputation bum…

I'm not even a moderator, but if you as a bad question I vote to close it. That's how the site works. Even if you feel you put a lot of work into something doesn't mean it's a valid question to the site. Read the FAQ.

Re: Poll: What is your current Stack Overflow reputation?

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Post by compay »

bdg wrote: post #149
georgieporgie wrote: post #116

I got tired of the thankless task of doing other peoples' work, along with the overzealous mods shutting down my questions in the most condescending tone possible. In particular, I recall going so far as to read vendor-specific documentation for someone, and providing example code to parse the binary data in question. It was probably an hour of my work and I didn't even get a 'thank you', much less any reputation bum…

I'm not even a moderator, but if you as a bad question I vote to close it. That's how the site works. Even if you feel you put a lot of work into something doesn't mean it's a valid question to the site. Read the FAQ.

>> along with the overzealous mods shutting down my questions in the most condescending tone possible.

> Read the FAQ.

Your response seems to be a a perfect demonstration of what he's complaining about.

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