Timeline for Travel SE Isn’t Very Welcoming. It’s Time for That to Change
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| Jun 2, 2018 at 0:08 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| May 27, 2018 at 13:26 | comment | added | Clonkex | @CHJ To be fair, most people who think their answer was downvoted for no reason simply don't know the reason. It might be blindingly obvious to experienced SO users but not something a new user has even considered (eg. posting a link-only answer). Re. "who's policing the police", well, everyone is to an extent. Anyone can report anyone else to the mods. The mods are policed by each other and, if necessary, by SE's community managers. SE is the top of the food chain and we mostly have to trust them. Incidentally it doesn't take much rep to get the basic powers so I wouldn't say "ALL power". | |
| May 15, 2018 at 20:21 | answer | added | AVJ | timeline score: 6 | |
| May 15, 2018 at 16:33 | comment | added | AVJ | In fairness the title of that blog should be "SO isn't welcoming to begineers". I've had my share of horrible SO experiences when I was a beginner. Including my correct answer being downvoted for no reason at all. Low reputation means you can't upvote, or leave comments. Which means ALL power is concentrated with high reputation people (sounds like Plutocracy), and beginners have no votes on answers that may have helped them! Also begs the questions: Who's policing the police. | |
| May 15, 2018 at 13:17 | answer | added | DTRT | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 6, 2018 at 15:29 | answer | added | mts | timeline score: 9 | |
| May 3, 2018 at 8:32 | comment | added | choster | FWIW, I think the title of this question is contentious and distracts from the valid and well-meaning content. The EL&U counterpart was labeled Can English Language & Usage help with making StackExchange more welcoming? and I think this wording maintains the spirit without implicating that current participants on the stack are unwelcoming. | |
| May 3, 2018 at 2:01 | answer | added | Nean Der Thal | timeline score: 8 | |
| May 2, 2018 at 15:49 | comment | added | JonathanReez Mod | @JimMackenzie it could be explained like that too | |
| May 2, 2018 at 15:11 | comment | added | Jim MacKenzie | @JonathanReez You'd need to compare that rate to the rate of other established Stacks. For example, almost all the good Schengen questions have already been asked. It's getting harder and harder to come up with a good new question that isn't a duplicate, and this will become increasingly true with time. | |
| May 2, 2018 at 4:39 | comment | added | Mark Mayo Mod | I was also concerned after looking at the close as duplicate percentage (definitely increasing) but ... isn't that what is meant to happen? In theory we'd have more and more already asked and answered questions. | |
| May 2, 2018 at 4:39 | comment | added | Mark Mayo Mod | @JonathanReez ah I misunderstood, I thought you meant total, not creation rate. | |
| May 2, 2018 at 4:21 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackTravel/status/991533176618213376 | ||
| May 2, 2018 at 3:34 | comment | added | JonathanReez Mod | @MarkMayo check the mod analytics tool, it's more accurate | |
| May 2, 2018 at 2:53 | history | edited | Mark MayoMod |
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| May 2, 2018 at 2:28 | comment | added | Mark Mayo Mod | For those who don't want to add comments/answers here, this is also being discussed in the Travel Chat Room | |
| May 2, 2018 at 2:26 | answer | added | Mark MayoMod | timeline score: 16 | |
| May 2, 2018 at 2:20 | comment | added | Mark Mayo Mod | @JonathanReez stackexchange.com/sites would imply an extra 22 questions a day = about 8000 extra questions a year? (yes, I'd estimate 1/4 get closed as duplicate/off topic, but still) | |
| May 1, 2018 at 22:46 | comment | added | JonathanReez Mod | I can confirm that this is a real issue on Travel.SE: despite the amazing growth in traffic (40% more visitors in 2017) we still have roughly the same amount of questions and answers. | |
| May 1, 2018 at 14:52 | comment | added | Jim MacKenzie | It will take a significant effort of time to amend this practice. Is it possible to get our Stack overlords to reconfigure the site to automatically post helpful comments when we close threads, e.g.? Constant manual intervention is going to be a significant task. | |
| May 1, 2018 at 9:52 | comment | added | Zach Lipton | Thanks for posting this! I started writing more or less the same thing, and I hope this can be a useful discussion, ideally focused on moving forward rather than rehashing old disputes. I may add some community wiki answers on some areas to consider once I've given this more thought. | |
| May 1, 2018 at 9:22 | history | asked | mts | CC BY-SA 3.0 |