Question quality is dropping on Stack Overflow

Re:Question quality is dropping on Stack Overflow by kordless on Wednesday May 07, 2014 @01:38AM (#7708758)

Seems like instead of rate limiting users ability to ask bad questions, you should rate limit the viewing of bad questions by good answerers. In order to keep up the effort of answering questions, maybe some automation is in order to do best-effort auto answering or collapsing of questions into related ones.

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Re:Question quality is dropping on Stack Overflow by jzwinck on Wednesday May 07, 2014 @01:56AM (#7708804)

I agree with your first sentence for sure. Another way to implement it would be to avoid showing new questions with no upvotes to many users--only show them to a small sample of users and see if in the first ten minutes the question gets voted up or down to gauge its quality. That way we'd limit the "shotgun" effect of sending crappy questions to thousands of people all at once (we sometimes see 6 or 8 downvotes on a single question before it gets closed or deleted, which implies a ton of people saw it despite that it was crap).

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Re:Question quality is dropping on Stack Overflow by kordless on Wednesday May 07, 2014 @02:34AM (#7708900)

I like it! Would be sorta like A/B testing the questions...

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Re:Question quality is dropping on Stack Overflow by InclinedPlane on Wednesday May 07, 2014 @02:46AM (#7708925)

This pattern is so common I'm not sure why it's not implemented more often. It's just like feature flags with incremental rollout except for content.

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