This may be a little controversial, but perhaps it would be worth while to:
Make access to the First Posts and Late Answer Review queues a 500 rep privilege.
Hopefully this will prevent the blind from leading the blind.
As a possible side benefit it may slow down the badge hunters till they g...
When the Mathematica community was on StackOverflow we operated fairly independently of much of the rest of the site. At that time there were not the same review queues, etc., but we still sometimes were frustrated by people closing questions that we wanted open.
At the same time I know that several members comment on how much better it was "here" in the "mathematica" tag than some of the other tags they participated in.
@Bart I guess that depends on what "workable" is. I'm not particularly good at articulating what I mean but I am trying to argue for the benefit of sub-communities. I believe it would be better for some of these communities to flourish than to have all of them dragged down to the same poor level.
But then again @Mr.Wizard Mathematica is not as commonplace as a say PHP, JavaScript, C#, C, etc. I haven't used it nearly enough to make any real statement about it, but I don't think I'm far off in saying that not everybody and their grandma is using it.
You argue that "less popular tags" won't get reviewed. Okay. Why is that a problem? I suppose there are two situations: (1) total junk edits / spam; (2) neglect.
In the case of (1) the offenders need some time in the penalty box. (Stop making junk edits.) If it is neglect, isn't that the problem of the tag community? I mean, if people care about the subject they should be reviewing the edits in that tag. In fact, from my experience with the fairly-isolated "mathematica" tag I'd say the sense of community was a strong factor in people taking care of those posts.
Though if your interaction takes place in some of the smaller tags, getting the amount of rep to even perform reviews might be a struggle. Though I don't have figures to back it up.
@Bart Surely true, but I don't think that undermines my argument. To the contrary, the huge tags are going to be as they are; there's simply too much volume for it to be otherwise; however, the smaller tags I feel would benefit from a stronger "community."
Yes, I've been thinking about how to encourage a greater sense of community within tags, to control their quality. Haven't come up with great ideas though. But if you see how even some of the greater PHP or Android tags complain about quality control issues, I'm not sure how you'd address those.
@Bart It's worth a try. :-) I don't have a clearly thought out framework in mind which is why I wanted to discuss this. I have quite a limited perspective as the vast majority of my participation on SO was within a single tag/community.
That it is. There is no substitute for good people either. The site I moderate (Mathematica) is a breeze because there are so many good users and so few bad. The entire suggested edits queue could easily be handled by a single user, though people would have to wait a bit longer for approvals.
I hope for you it stays that way. Unfortunately SO seems to be a bit of a different beast. It's still good. But it doesn't live up to the utopia it was set out to be. And that requires some seemingly backward measures from time to time.
In any case, time for me to head out and get something done today
I think this old post needs some attention: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/170963/deleting-a-comment-with-the-add-comment-textarea-open-removes-the-textarea There are a recent near-duplicates, but they're all status-completed, and this one isn't fixed
While I'm at it, for this: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/164381/editing-a-post-with-a-pending-edit-after-already-reviewing-20-edits it seems like a feature request, but it's marked support, should I edit it with the feature-request tag or post a new question?
This may be a little controversial, but perhaps it would be worth while to:
Make access to the First Posts and Late Answer Review queues a 500 rep privilege.
Hopefully this will prevent the blind from leading the blind.
As a possible side benefit it may slow down the badge hunters till they g...
