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These questions boil down to "what are do the people who curate the site want to maintain?" The higher the percentage of people who do that curation (and that includes closing and deleting content ...
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#2: Post edited
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shagie
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2020-08-27T20:15:02Z (about 4 years ago)
- These questions boil down to "what are do the people who curate the site want to maintain?"
The higher the percentage of people who do that curation (and that includes closing and deleting content that does not meet the desired quality threshold), the software and squishier the nature of the question that can be handled by that community.If it is a pool of people that has less time available than the curation, the easiest way to resolve allocate time to curate that material is to close the questions that take more time to deal with. Opinion and recommendation questions are particularly notorious for this type of content - the time it takes to curate them is often disproportionate to the amount of time it takes to write a minimally or less than acceptable answer.- With more people willing to do that curation, it is easier to deal with the poor answers. With fewer people willing to do that curation, it is easier to close the question than deal with those poor answers. With no one doing that curation, you get Yahoo Answers.
- These questions boil down to "what are do the people who curate the site want to maintain?"
- The higher the percentage of people who do that curation (and that includes closing and deleting content that does not meet the desired quality threshold), the softer and squishier the nature of the question that can be handled by that community.
- If it is a pool of people that has less time available than the curation demands, the easiest way to resolve this is to close the questions that take more time to deal with. Opinion and recommendation questions are particularly notorious for this type of content - the time it takes to curate them is often disproportionate to the amount of time it takes to write a minimally or less than acceptable answer.
- With more people willing to do that curation, it is easier to deal with the poor answers. With fewer people willing to do that curation, it is easier to close the question than deal with those poor answers. With no one doing that curation, you get Yahoo Answers.
#1: Initial revision
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shagie
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2020-08-27T15:29:40Z (about 4 years ago)
These questions boil down to "what are do the people who curate the site want to maintain?" The higher the percentage of people who do that curation (and that includes closing and deleting content that does not meet the desired quality threshold), the software and squishier the nature of the question that can be handled by that community. If it is a pool of people that has less time available than the curation, the easiest way to resolve allocate time to curate that material is to close the questions that take more time to deal with. Opinion and recommendation questions are particularly notorious for this type of content - the time it takes to curate them is often disproportionate to the amount of time it takes to write a minimally or less than acceptable answer. With more people willing to do that curation, it is easier to deal with the poor answers. With fewer people willing to do that curation, it is easier to close the question than deal with those poor answers. With no one doing that curation, you get Yahoo Answers.