Timeline for How is the community doing? [2017]
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| May 1, 2017 at 12:15 | comment | added | Miniman | @SirTechSpec Overall, 30% of closed questions are reopened and remain open. That includes dupes, though. More detailed, but time-limited stats are available on this page for users with sufficient rep. Within the last 90 days, 17% of opinion-based questions were reopened, 28% of too broad, 38% of unclear, 17% of dupes, 2% of off-topics. | |
| Apr 30, 2017 at 18:15 | comment | added | SirTechSpec | Can one of our data wizards tell us the actual rate at which closed questions are reopened (and left open) vs. closed forever? Preferably excluding close-dupes, which I think we usually (though not universally) agree are for the best? | |
| Apr 13, 2017 at 4:26 | comment | added | mxyzplk Mod | So here's the deal. If the OP hasn't come back to answer clarification questions - then those answers will not benefit them. This is the crux of the on-hold/fix/reopen cycle - many (most) of the times it doesn't work is because, due to the magic of the Internet, someone pooped out a question and wandered off forever. Getting answers to those helps them how? If that OP wants some answers they might say something - anything - else and get engaged by the community. | |
| Apr 13, 2017 at 4:08 | comment | added | Dan B | @mxyzplk rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/97925/… seems to be a recent example: it's a question where people seemed to have a strong desire to answer but felt frustrated because the question was closed. I agree that we would have liked more information, but I think the question was still answerable, and I wish the community hadn't voted to put it on hold. | |
| Apr 12, 2017 at 4:10 | comment | added | BESW | While I agree with your diagnosis of symptoms, I don't think changing our closing policies is a useful cure. Better comment culture (more friendly explanation and links, fewer brusque commands and less dogpiling) and less aggressive downvoting on new user questions (-1 gets the message across; -5 is unnecessary) are probably the way to go on this. | |
| Apr 11, 2017 at 19:47 | comment | added | mxyzplk Mod | I think most new folks don't get closes they get "on holds" and I see most of the on holds get successfully resolved... Just going to look at the front page now, there's only one closed-as-dupe, but a large number of those open questions were on hold at one point, but they got fixed and reopened. | |
| Apr 11, 2017 at 17:16 | comment | added | Please stop being evil | If you trigger even a small portion of the base's moral relativism or whatever, your question is getting closed. Plus if people think there is no answer they're more likely to close as too broad than to leave a thing open. Because it is so, so much easier to close a question than to open it this is a big problem. | |
| Apr 11, 2017 at 17:14 | comment | added | Please stop being evil | I have this same issue but from a different angle. Sometimes a tiny portion of the user base sees a question as opinion based or too broad or whatever. Effectively that's their answer to the question at hand-- most people say "the right choice is X", some people say "the right choice is Y", and a small minority says "There's no way to tell it's just your opinion everything is relative GRAHHHHHH"... | |
| Apr 11, 2017 at 16:25 | comment | added | KorvinStarmast | Many new users view closure/hold as a rejection of the question, not as an opportunity to edit/improve/clarify. Thanks for making this point. | |
| Apr 11, 2017 at 16:20 | history | answered | Dan B | CC BY-SA 3.0 |