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Q: Is there a place to get critique on questions in order to hone them?

spaineI'm looking for critique on whether something is a valid question. Is there a way to get feedback and test a question before posting and having my reputation slaughtered? For instance, I changed the wording of a question here: Use Python to Build Nested JSON from Flat Table , but only after it ...

discussion questions
 
user315433
A Stack Overflow Academy prospect...
 
user315433
The feeling of "I answered this exact meta question already, but what site was that on" leading to "argh no network-wide search of own posts"...
 
user315433
It doesn't look like stackexchange.com/search indexes metas.
 
JamesENL
JamesENL
1:14 AM
@bjb568isnotapebble your name changed firstly
Secondly, why are you doing an internship in Taiwan?
 
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JamesENL
JamesENL
sd 2k
 
Quill
Quill
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Q: When is Programming Puzzles & Code Golf getting community ads?

Helka HombaOver 3 months ago, on Febuary 23, 2016, it was announced that this SE site was graduating. That post said that You will soon be able to select your own community ads. Give me a moment to set these up later this week. The ads were not set up that week and still haven't been. Last week our ...

support community-ads graduation
hmm
 
hichris123
hichris123
Aug 4 '14 at 0:08, by Jason C
SOA = Shog9's On Acid
Someone needs to superping Jason. He was seen on meta just a little bit ago...
 
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Quill
Quill
@hichris123 step 1) get moderator status on MSE
 
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bjb568 is not a pebble
bjb568 is not a pebble
2:13 AM
@JamesENL ¿Por qué no?
 
JamesENL
JamesENL
Why not an American Internship?
Why fly halfway round the world?
 
bjb568 is not a pebble
bjb568 is not a pebble
Family here.
 
JamesENL
JamesENL
Ahhh I see
Wait? You're from Taiwan originally?
Or you've just got family there?
 
hichris123
hichris123
Seems like someone should drop into the Tavern. ;) — hichris123 32 mins ago
 
Helka Homba
Helka Homba
@Quill mhmm!
Is it common for SE to miss site graduation related deadlines and promises? It's happened a few times with PPCG but I haven't been on any other site enough to know.
 
hichris123
hichris123
2:27 AM
Well, if PPCG wasn't so... insistent...
(more likely, the CMs are just busy)
 
Helka Homba
Helka Homba
@hichris123 Are we supposed to quietly wait 3+ months while our graduation updates are overlooked? :/
 
bjb568 is not a pebble
bjb568 is not a pebble
@JamesENL just that
 
hichris123
hichris123
Well, y'all don't have to be quite so loud about it... a quiet nudge once in a while is okay. And graduation really isn't anything to be excited about.
 
Quill
Quill
besides site design and swag and election
 
hichris123
hichris123
None of those are all that exciting. And the first two occur in 6-8 weeks, so...
 
Quill
Quill
2:35 AM
what is exciting, then?
 
Helka Homba
Helka Homba
@hichris123 It is to some people, and as a CM said, we've been forced to wait very long
So I'm just wondering if that's common when other sites have graduated
Then I wouldn't be so annoyed (in a way)
I'm sure SE is busy helping PPCG and other sites graduate and I doubt they ever really intentionally ignored us but it is bothersome when something promised doesn't happen.
 
hichris123
hichris123
Current list in the queue is: Salesforce, Expression Engine, Anime, Computer Science, Japanese, Cryptography, Movies, Blender, and English Language Learners. — Grace Note ♦ Aug 6 '14 at 0:13
Considering Japanese just got its design...
 
Quill
Quill
Anime is the only one on that list without a design now
and I spoke to Jin and JNat about that the other day; it seems they're working on it/ coming up soon
 
hichris123
hichris123
How did you manage to speak with Jin? I'm not quite sure what he works on now, but he doesn't post on meta much...
 
Quill
Quill
magic (JNat summoned him, I think)
in Maid Café (メイド喫茶) on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, Jun 8 at 15:15, by Jin
@ardaozkal FYI I'm working with our creative director Kurtis to come up with a cool design for anime/manga site. it's going to be quite involved that's why it's taking a while :)
 
Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall
2:47 AM
Do we really want underlines on all links? meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/326004/…
 
hichris123
hichris123
3:00 AM
For links in a post, meh. For all links, that would seem really ugly to me.
 
Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall
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A: When should hyperlinks be underlined?

MarielleUnderlined links can have a negative effect on readibility, according to this 2003 study comparing text readibility for plain text, standard blue hyperlinks and overlay link markers. A later study comparing different link visualisation techniques found that at that time (2004) the common web use...

> Good day, please a dude
?
 
Quill
Quill
 
user315433
The post has been edited since, the pin kind of overstayed its purpose.
 
user315433
If it ever had one.
 
hichris123
hichris123
Did a ray of sunshine pin that?
 
Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall
3:05 AM
It got sandwich some stars. :D
 
Quill
Quill
they're trying to trick us into thinking they're a good RO
 
user315433
She, if it was Sunshine
 
hichris123
hichris123
Poor duck.
 
Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall
I love catching up on the stars here... lol
 
Quill
Quill
 
Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall
3:13 AM
@Quill thanks
 
hichris123
hichris123
3:40 AM
I wonder how many interesting, straddling the line Too Broad questions have been closed.
 
Quill
Quill
sede it
 
hichris123
hichris123
Almost temped to agree with YCS there, it seems like the scope of SO has been narrowed down to "debug this for me".
 
Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall
I've made a career of answering canonical questions with canonical answers. I do not share that view.
 
hichris123
hichris123
@Quill I probably will, except first I'd like to go through questions closed with NARQ and are highly upvoted.
 
user315433
Fortunately there are smaller tags where close votes almost never add up to five.
 
hichris123
hichris123
3:42 AM
@AaronHall And canonicals never get close voted, right? :/
 
Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall
By definition.
The community is always right - by definition.
 
user315433
My trend is toward less reviewing, more shrug-skipping, and a bit more answering.
 
Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall
mob rule
 
Quill
Quill
I got a pay increase :D
 
user315433
Ideally, the majority of questions should be (1) never voted on; (2) never commented on; (3) deleted by roomba in due time.
 
hichris123
hichris123
3:44 AM
@soup Yeah. At this point, it seems like some efforts like the SOCVR, while founded in good faith, seem to be starting to throw the baby out with the bathwater...
 
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JamesENL
JamesENL
sd k
 
hichris123
hichris123
@AaronHall Except who is the community? Five folks who close a question? A bunch of disgruntled users? The people sitting on the sidelines, not caring either way?
 
Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall
Yes.
 
hichris123
hichris123
That wasn't exactly a yes/no question. :P
 
Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall
3:48 AM
When you're in a room, the room owners are always right. Moderators are always right. Spolsky is the rightest of the right. And that's the way it works.
 
Quill
Quill
where does Jeff fit into that
 
Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall
It's basically a mostly benign dictatorship.
and I wouldn't know where to say it's not benign.
Jeff left, so he's not the head cheese anymore, right?
Did I just conflate head honcho and big cheese?
 
user315433
I don't think Joel has much input on which Android questions get closed.
 
Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall
well, that's why the community is always right.
 
JamesENL
JamesENL
inb4 Joel squats on the php tag closing all the crap questions
Wielding the ban hammer like Mjölnir
 
Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall
3:54 AM
inb4 = "the before time, the long long ago"
i.e. last week.
?
 
hichris123
hichris123
@soup When is the last time Joel did something on a non-meta site I wonder...
 
Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall
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Q: Reinforcing a shelf supported only by pins

Joel SpolskyOur liquor cabinet has the usual row of holes drilled on either side for height-adjustable shelves, with typical shelf pins: I think the wood is MDF + veneer. It might be plywood. It's not holding the pins very well. The end result was sudden catastrophic failure followed by two hours of mo...

cabinets shelving
 
Quill
Quill
> while trying to convince the world-famous Siberian husky who lives with us to stay in the other room.
that must be confusing for some people
 
Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall
Of course, that's just the official account. He could be running some other account in this room, right now... even impersonating someone you know...
 
hichris123
hichris123
Apparently he also downvoted something on Startups in February: startups.stackexchange.com/help/badges/7/critic?userid=142
 
Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall
4:07 AM
:D
Votes hardly count.
 
Quill
Quill
how did he downvote without the rep requirements?
 
Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall
He can break all the rules with no repercussions.
Does the board care? No. Why would they...
 
hichris123
hichris123
@Quill He has a diamond...
 
Quill
Quill
oh right.... derp
 
Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall
He's just got to have the right burn rate and hit the numbers he pitched when raising the last series...
Anyhoo, thanks for the platform, Joel! :)
Oh hey, quick question, does anyone know if contributing to the documentation project is gamified with rep/karma/whatever?
 
Quill
Quill
4:12 AM
rep, yeah
 
Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall
fer real?
what's the comp structure like? :D
When the singularity hits and AI becomes self-aware these internet points are actually going to be worth something. :D
 
user315433
@hichris123 My conspiracy theory is that Joel was behind the shutdown of the original On Startups site. No other site with similar stats was ever shut down.
 
user315433
Jan 31 '11 at 14:27, by Chris Jester-Young
@DanGrossman inb4 http://chat.meta.stackoverflow.com/transcript/89?m=483676#483676
 
user315433
The first Tavern use of inb4. Before everyone else started using it.
 
user315433
Jan Dvorak was an early adopter, chat.meta.stackexchange.com/…
 
Quill
Quill
4:22 AM
it's older than that, just not on here
 
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user315433
I'm more inclined to vote for AU mod candidates who are active between UTC 4 and UTC 12...
 
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4:38 AM
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user315433
AU primary so far, 8 hours in. I like the top 3 here. Two get elected.
 
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JamesENL
JamesENL
5:24 AM
sd 3- 2k
 
user315433
5:38 AM
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Illuminati

Proposed Q&A site for members, researchers, believers and deniers of the Illuminati, an Enlightenment-era founded secret society

Currently in definition.

 
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sd k
 
Derpy
Derpy
7:13 AM
@soup ALL SUBSCRIBEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!
 
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Bart
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8:48 AM
@ShadowWizard you know it
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
@Bart of course
 
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user315433
10:46 AM
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Q: Stack Snippets Upgrade: new UI

KonamimanGood news for those who love Stack Snippets (and also for those who don't, but use it anyway). We improved the user experience and UI to: Create visual hierarchy (AKA "easy to use") in the editor and in the snippet inside the post Improve the visual design Fix some design issues Other...

discussion feedback stack-snippets
 
Derpy
Derpy
Urghhh... Just got the news in from arqade room....
 
Magisch
Magisch
@Derpy Hm?
What news?
 
Derpy
Derpy
Microsoft announcing next console:
in The Bridge on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 4 mins ago, by Private Pansy
> We can render at 60Hz. We can render fully uncompressed pixels. These are the highest quality pixels anybody has seen.
And already the Internet has answered the call
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
11:05 AM
@Derpy is this because now after buying LinkedIn they're left without any money? ;)
 
Derpy
Derpy
@ShadowWizard I am more concerned of having to wait 2 years before all those high quality pixels will be finally ready for harvesting.
I mean, I know they will be highest-quality, GMO free pixels... but to wait so long...
 
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user315433
12:16 PM
The list of open positions at SE is organized by team, using the same team descriptions as on Company page, with a grammatical adjustment.
 
user315433
For example, Engineering is described as "Building and shipping products that millions of developers use every day" on company page and so on the hiring page, it's "Build and ship products that millions of developers use every day."
 
user315433
Same for Finance, Sales, etc. So, if they ever decide to hire for an executive position, the job description will have "Look busy since 2008."
 
hichris123
hichris123
12:34 PM
How bout that ask page, eh? ;) also: six months? What the heck happened to 6 to 8 weeks? — Jeff Atwood ♦ Jun 10 at 2:25
 
user315433
12:49 PM
> What do you think about setting up something like the Stack Overflow Close Vote Reviewers chat room (SOCVR)? - AU mod candidate questionnaire
 
user315433
There are 6 beta sites with 10+ questions per day: es.SO (39.1), Ethereum (14.5), ja.SO (12.9), Arduino (12.6), Mechanics (11.9), Law (10.4).
 
user315433
For comparison, 6 graduated sites with the lowest QPD: Skeptics (3.2), CStheory (4.0), ExpressionEngine (4.2), PPCG (4.9), Anime (5.6), Christianity (5.9)
 
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bjb568 is not a pebble
bjb568 is not a pebble
1:33 PM
Handling practical stuff? You know, I get up every day in the morning and get amoddin' away on impractical stuff. It's how I make a living. How dare you suggest that moderators hands practical stuff? — bjb568 is not a pebble 2 mins ago
 
Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall
I just tied with the lower answer.
The lower answer was made in 08. Mine was made in November 2015.
We've got to improve the sorting algorithm.
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
@AaronHall to always put yours first?
 
Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall
How much great content is buried under old junk?
I'm being an advocate of the readers.
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
If something is really junk, flag it.
Otherwise, it means at least 24 people found it useful at some point.
I don't think any single person can decide "my content is perfect, it should be first."
 
Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall
That answer is getting votes at a rate of about 10 times the other one, which probably got all of its votes up front.
 
bjb568 is not a pebble
bjb568 is not a pebble
1:40 PM
Yeah, hot makes more sense than top.
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
@AaronHall cool, so soon enough it will get more and be on top. Case solved. :)
 
Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall
It won't be on top because the asker accepted another answer 8 years ago.
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
@AaronHall oh, that's a totally different case, discussed to death on MSE
But again, if accepted answer is really junk and wrong, it should be flagged and deleted.
Mods can't unaccept, but can delete such answer.
 
Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall
It's not a deletable answer.
But my answer is getting votes at a lifetime rate faster than the accepted answer (and we all know the accepted answers nearly always get the vast majority of votes.)
 
bluefeet
bluefeet
What kind of sort would you prefer?
 
Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall
1:46 PM
Reddit/xkcd sort? A sort that takes time into account?
 
Andy
Andy
@AaronHall, the comments on the answer don't clearly indicate that it doesn't work. Such a comment would be helpful - especially if it explained how it doesn't work.
 
Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall
A sort that ignores answers that were accepted more than a year ago?
(or more than 5 years ago?
 
user315433
Any sort other than "by score" will be impossible to explain to users.
 
bluefeet
bluefeet
@AaronHall Too confusing to users not used to the network
 
Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall
Yeah, those Reddit users are so confused they just keep posting on the site.
 
user315433
1:48 PM
I'd like to see something not so one-dimensional. A sticker next to the top post indicating that a newer challenger is down there, with a link to it.
 
Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall
And I don't care if we do it that way. But we should do something like ignoring upvotes older than a year.
 
bjb568 is not a pebble
bjb568 is not a pebble
@bluefeet Completely remove accepts, their sorting power, and the reputation associated with them.
Those who are the least knowledgeable in a subject shouldn't be able to single-handedly award 25 reputation and pin a bad answer to the top.
 
Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall
Just make it a sort option. Label it "hot".
Let it be selectable. It doesn't even have to be default.
 
user315433
Any sort other than the default one (whatever the default it) is inconsequential to the majority of users.
 
bjb568 is not a pebble
bjb568 is not a pebble
Yeah, we don't need options. We just need what we have to be better.
 
Magisch
Magisch
1:50 PM
@bluefeet I'd nix accepts entirely
 
bluefeet
bluefeet
@bjb568isnotapebble that's extremely unlikely
 
Magisch
Magisch
They're underused, often misused, and they mean less then an upvote
 
bjb568 is not a pebble
bjb568 is not a pebble
@bluefeet Likely or not, it's what should happen.
 
Magisch
Magisch
They make sense for a user-focused Q/A site
 
bjb568 is not a pebble
bjb568 is not a pebble
Accepts don't solve any problem votes haven't already oversolved.
 
Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall
1:51 PM
Then make "hot" the default and let the accepted answer be unpinned.
A/B test it.
 
bjb568 is not a pebble
bjb568 is not a pebble
@Magisch That's called a forum.
 
Magisch
Magisch
But on SO, we're trying to build a decent knowledge base. The asker, by definition, has no clue about the question's answer. He shouldn't be judging it either.
 
Quill
Quill
@bjb568isnotapebble meh, situational questions are more common than knowledge questions
 
Magisch
Magisch
Not more then the combined vote of all the other users, at least
 
Quill
Quill
and SO isn't about archiving all the world's programming information, it's about solving problems
 
bluefeet
bluefeet
1:53 PM
@Magisch I disagree. The OP chooses the answer that worked for them via accept.
 
Magisch
Magisch
In a vast number of cases though the solution equates to "don't do that, thats stupid"
 
bjb568 is not a pebble
bjb568 is not a pebble
@Quill That's because bad answers to these questions who are a poor fit to the site can get 25 rep from OP plus more from other idiot users who are already used to this broken model for the site. In any case, you probably have a situational question because you don't understand some concept or have some knowledge.
 
user315433
On certain topics/sites, an answer will be read by: 1) the 1-rep OP; 2) a few hundred anonymous visitors. If accepts don't generate rep, where is the rep reward for answering going to come from?
 
Andy
Andy
@bjb568isnotapebble Oh? What about the reverse of the currently described problem? A massively upvoted post was correct in 2008 but isn't in 2016. A new answer posted now can be pinned to the top as correct now.
 
Magisch
Magisch
Which most OPs don't like to hear, and then they accept the silly workaround that severely complicates their code but somehow stays within their paradigm @bluefeet
I argue in a vast number of cases the accept is not given for the best answer, but for the one that panders most to the OP
 
bluefeet
bluefeet
1:54 PM
@Magisch examples?
 
Quill
Quill
whether or not you have experience in the field of the question doesn't automatically make you the best candidate to choose the ideal answer. As a collective, however, we can give an outside opinion to the situation via voting. A problem from the author gets a solution for their problem
 
bjb568 is not a pebble
bjb568 is not a pebble
@Quill It's about solving problems for the world by archiving programming info. It shouldn't be for just the OP.
 
Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall
@bluefeet That contradicts the main idea the site was created by which was to create a compendium of canonical questions and answers. Most readers don't have time to make a careful reading of all the answers, they just want the "best answers to rise to the top" not the "one that worked for OP".
 
Magisch
Magisch
@bluefeet Even one by me, so I know that was my thought process at the time: stackoverflow.com/questions/35404220/…
 
Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall
It's probably Atwood and Spolsky's contradiction, but it's a contradiction.
 
Magisch
Magisch
1:55 PM
I have some but not alot of idea about the subject there
The notion that regardless of that I get to choose the best answer (against the dozens of experts voting) is a little silly
 
Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall
anyways, got to go. I'll stir the pot more later, I promise. Cheers!
 
bjb568 is not a pebble
bjb568 is not a pebble
@bluefeet Worked? So the answer where a crap piece of code got copy-pasted and it happened to work? We shouldn't optimize for copy-paste coders. We should optimize for competent users who value nuance, concepts, correctness, and simplicity. These attributes aren't what accepting an answer works for.
@soup Votes by people who know what they're doing, ideally. We should probably up the upvoting min rep on SO.
@Andy Votes with hotness sorting plus comments which point out the issue on the old answer solve this.
 
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in The 2nd Monitor on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 1 hour ago, by Donald.McLean
You know for sure that you're a full stack developer when you are THE ONLY developer.
 
bjb568 is not a pebble
bjb568 is not a pebble
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