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9:34 AM
@Servy It depends. Reddit (namely r/programming) has a taste for two type of SO posts: Funny posts. And in-depth posts that teach something interesting. They don't like things that are stupidly basic. The fact that they like in-depth posts, IMO, makes Reddit a better indicator of quality than our own multicollider. Yes, the funny ones bring in a lot of noise and controversy, but the fact remains that they also boost the advanced posts - something our multicollider currently fails to do. — Mysticial 15 hours ago
yeah, would be great to get something more relevant to quality indication here as well, like your formula for example. @Mysticial what do you think about passing formula to meta review? I mean making a dedicated MSO post to discuss it...
Let's see if I learned it correctly... Formula purpose is to provide rating for "advanced" questions, where question is considered advanced if it is both 1) interesting (assuming this indicated by high score) and 2) requires high-effort answers / doesn't look like easy to answer (assuming this indicated by small answers count). Is that right?
by the way "high effort answers" requirement makes the bottom part of current formula (one with Qage) look slippery as well - because it gives an unfair edge to questions taking an hour to answer well over those that take a day. I would consider adjusting it in the cases when evidence suggests that it makes sense...
...Say, when one of the answers first crosses over "nice answer" score of 10, I would replace question age in the bottom to an age of that "sufficiently scored" answer. That would make sort of sliding scale you mentioned before
 

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