Timeline for Revisiting our "never guess the game system" policy
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| Sep 28, 2018 at 2:22 | comment | added | KorvinStarmast | @HeyICanChan A zero tolerance policy on almost anything nearly always leads to those enforcing that policy, at some point, looking foolish Yep. Fought two school boards over that crap. You nailed that dive. | |
| Sep 25, 2018 at 0:20 | comment | added | nitsua60 Mod | @Chan That "new contributor" indicator is separately determined for mainsite and meta: see also greener's meta.se request on the matter for some more details. | |
| Sep 24, 2018 at 20:30 | comment | added | Hey I Can Chan | A zero tolerance policy on almost anything nearly always leads to those enforcing that policy, at some point, looking foolish. With that in mind, I think it's fine that the site values content over people, but I also think that people can value people over content to such a degree that there's room for a more welcoming new-contributor experience than Question held; learn to tag! (By the way, I think it's hilarious that you're a new contributor with, like, 19k rep.) | |
| Sep 24, 2018 at 18:20 | comment | added | Carcer | @Bloodcinder frankly I agree that technical improvements to the way the site works that allow us to emphasise the importance of tagging to the user while they are first composing their question is the best solution to this issue. However, that's not the site we currently have; we don't have a way to prevent the problem before it has happened as of yet, we can only react when the user does or doesn't do the right thing. This is what I think the policy should be for the site as it currently is; I'd happily be less tolerant if we had those kinds of changes made. | |
| Sep 24, 2018 at 17:36 | comment | added | Bloodcinder | I downvoted in disagreement because as a teacher I believe strongly that teaching can be done well and it can be done poorly; it's not enough to consider it a teachable moment; it has to be taught well. And in my experience as a teacher fixing the problem after the fact is never as teachable as fixing the problem immediately or before it occurs. I explain that more thoroughly in the comments on my own answer. (I don't want to argue in comments on your answer. I'm just stating why I downvoted.) | |
| Sep 24, 2018 at 16:57 | comment | added | KorvinStarmast | I have done the occasional "teach by showing how to provide a reference/supporting point" in editing answers. I usually add a comment to let folks know what I did. Not sure if I am enabling or helping: probably depends on the user. | |
| Sep 24, 2018 at 15:01 | history | edited | Carcer | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 24, 2018 at 14:54 | comment | added | Rubiksmoose | +1 I really like the point about teaching the users by showing. I think we often maybe forget that there is more than one way to teach. I have been a proponent of the old policy, but I think you might actually have me reconsidering here. | |
| Sep 24, 2018 at 14:45 | comment | added | doppelgreener Mod | The "teach them by adding the tag and showing them" approach (and making sure that was correct by checking with them) is in line with most of our other teaching approaches too: show them how to format a question by formatting it, etc, not sitting back and waiting for them to figure everything out themselves. | |
| Sep 24, 2018 at 14:44 | history | answered | Carcer | CC BY-SA 4.0 |