Timeline for The Six Subjective Question Guidelines -- Enforcement Notice
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| Nov 28, 2016 at 0:43 | comment | added | Mark Rosenblitt-Janssen | @JeffAtwood: It's a long way away from "anything goes" when you have a voting model -- it's how wikipedia works too. There, people vote by graduated acceptance of edits. Voting can curate 1000s of responses if you combine it with reputation or use a probablstic chooser for how you display answers. The former is more robust, but the latter is easy to implement. | |
| Jun 16, 2011 at 22:04 | comment | added | T Gregory | @Jeff, ok then if you're the editor you don't need some vague guidelines, do you? You are simply exercising editorial judgment. Which gets back to my original point: the guidelines are a farce. | |
| Jun 16, 2011 at 19:53 | comment | added | Jeff Atwood | of course we exert editorial control. You thought this was "anything goes?" That's not what programmers.stackexchange.com/faq says, or for that matter, the FAQ on any site in the Stack Exchange network. | |
| Jun 16, 2011 at 16:51 | comment | added | T Gregory | @Jeff, right and Justice Potter Stewart famously said that hard-core pornography is hard to define but "I know it when I see it." These "guidelines" are rules for when my question will be closed or not the way my astrology chart rules for whether I will be a great software engineer or not. Why don't you just say what you're really doing - exercising editorial control over the site. Saying that you're following some vague guidelines is a cop-out. | |
| Jun 16, 2011 at 7:37 | comment | added | Jeff Atwood | It's a set of 6 guidelines by which you can score a post. The lower the score, the more likely the question should be closed. There's still an element of judgment involved, but there are rules and guidelines to go by. | |
| Jun 16, 2011 at 7:06 | history | answered | T Gregory | CC BY-SA 3.0 |