@Seaofclouds
You said: “I have mentioned in other threads that it would be nice if answers that received a certain number of GAs could be highlighted or otherwise marked to draw attention to them.”
Ha! Awesome…see, a short time ago I posted a similar questions here. I wish you would have responded there and linked out to your thread posts. That’s the concern I was addressing when I thought of this as another solution.
You also said: “I’m curios about why you can’t see self-modding as a problem when in your question you said “I can see the revenge questions in the social section already” in regards to blocking other users. If you can see the revenge questions already from people blocking each other, can you really not see revenge modding.”
I posted that to show I already saw problems with the issues of perceived censorship. That’s why I included an option to see all answers (e.g., something along the lines of clicking “all” or “summarized” at the top of the thread) to reduce the possibility that people would wonder why the answer was just plain gone.
My frustration is that, and it’s shown up here, people just say “that won’t work” instead of “this is the problem you recognize/here’s a problem not mentioned…maybe if instead there was x function as well that could reduce the problem.”
The problem with just letting the answers and questions build up is that it doesn’t add to the community knowledge. The same problem happens as with the internet generally – there’s too many things saying the same thing you can’t find or it’s hard to find the most comprehensive parts of the answer for fast reference.
And I think the meta section is a way to crowdsource ways to make this community more effective at both providing a forum for discourse and a repository for a more and more comprehensive view of key issues we all face and how people have generally responded. I wonder about x solution, but never thought about a, b, and c problems. I ask about x issue and hear about a and b, and think there’s nothing that can be done to improve x solution. If another thread has proposed a similar y solution and got b and c, but no a, both posters and the community loses something. If problem c inspires a new method that makes x better, and a inspires a solution to y, and then someone sees that new x combined with new y leads to z which sounds better then both, something has been done.
Then, someone seeing that in the end, people though z was the best, and sees a solution d that makes a new, more effective z, we’re even better off.
My concern, and why I proposed this, is that people asking the questions are generally the ones that look through all the answers. Sometimes they will be good at summarizing everything to everyone, sometimes they won’t…but if there is the option there that doesn’t shut community responses down but still doesn’t turn away people who just see people saying the same thing and apparently not listening (I’m talking about a hypothetical person with such an assumption), then we lost out on input.
It seems that the majority of the responses here just seem to criticize and not offer a solution. Not to get on ya…but…you have posted repeatedly here, and only so far have said “This would hurt people’s feelings, upset the standards, and things are good as they are.” (drastic overgeneralization of course). But this is the first time you’ve offered an alternative solution, and I agree that there are different ways to try to make it easier for people to read through the “noise.” I present ideas to discuss a problem and refine a solution – there’s too much here we are losing information into the void.
To sum, THANK YOU for the reference! What do you think about an author great answer highlight as a solution to your issues (which I think are problems that would arise) in order to reduce the instance of them? Or is there some other way that we could have the membership cooperate to provide a sense of what we’re producing here to the community at large?
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