Answer by Clement Cherlin for Help set Q&A (TeamDAG) product development...
Editing posts on SO doesn't work for newbies or experienced users.The rep system appears to provide little to no value, is easily gamed, sets up a largely arbitrary pecking order that creates...
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Stuff that’s important to the community is not getting donewe’ve reviewed meta feedback - just get on with that for the time being. Specifically, fix what does not work (or explain why not) before...
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I see a lot of posts about question quality.As a relatively new user, I think I come from a different viewpoint than many others.While I think pre-populating the question box is helpful, I feel like...
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Some people will hate this.....As someone who has made the effort to get a 1st class degree in CompSci, I do not wish to see questions from users who have not got a degree (2:1 or above) in CompSci, or...
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A way to explain to someone why their question is a duplicate and if they then accept that the duplicate provides the answer, reward the person who found the duplicate with +15 rep.Documentation was...
View ArticleAnswer by Kevin Johnsrude for Help set Q&A (TeamDAG) product development...
Question QualitySO is very unfriendly to new users. Often they ask a question that through honest ignorance does not fulfill SO guidelines--heck I do that and I've a 1000+ rep!I suggest the following...
View ArticleAnswer by l4mpi for Help set Q&A (TeamDAG) product development priorities
Question Quality Theme, but including answerer experienceTL;DR: The Question Quality User Story starts from the POV of a new user, but the people who have a problem with question quality are the expert...
View ArticleAnswer by Karan Desai for Help set Q&A (TeamDAG) product development priorities
Improved duplicate question discovery/prominenceI vote for this. Generally people search on Google, find apt question on Stack and bumps to that question. But what if Google does not show search result...
View ArticleAnswer by Machavity for Help set Q&A (TeamDAG) product development priorities
Experienced user workflow themeBetter (mortal) moderation toolsThere's been a few requests over the years for some improvements to the 10k tools. The pages are basic and confusing.In this same vein,...
View ArticleAnswer by Frank Schmitt for Help set Q&A (TeamDAG) product development...
Question qualityWhy? Because it's the primary factor deciding about the usefulness of SO and - as has already been mentioned by others - improving question quality will have a lot of positive secondary...
View ArticleAnswer by Suragch for Help set Q&A (TeamDAG) product development priorities
Improve SearchThe current Stack Overflow search algorithm often misses useful content in its search results. When I want to find something I usually have to use Google, but it is a pain typing in...
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I agree with enderland's answer and more so with rene's comment: Question quality firstReviews are a downstream effect of poor question quality. If we can improve question quality (and duplicate...
View ArticleAnswer by Makoto for Help set Q&A (TeamDAG) product development priorities
SO Works for Me!In this I'll take the dark horse and champion the "SO Works for Me" mantra. I consider myself to be a power user, and I would love to see some of these features implemented:Proper web...
View ArticleAnswer by enderland for Help set Q&A (TeamDAG) product development priorities
Question QualityI feel like a broken record, but it seems so obvious to me.Specifically, fix the new user question experience to something like this. Pre-populating the question box will do several key...
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Help set Q&A (TeamDAG) product development priorities
Thanks everyone for your feedback on this post. As expected, there is a lot of passion around how we spend our resources improving Q&A. There is an undeniable desire to see DAG focus on...
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