Timeline for Should we have SR-style quality guidelines for questions and answers?
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| Sep 10, 2015 at 23:58 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | @feetwet SR would rather have a correct and potentially helpful answer that's poorly written. What we don't want is bad answers — for example, answers that just repeat the first Google hit for the question which in about 90% of the times obviously fails at least one essential requirement. The reason we want answers to go through the list of requirements is that when answers don't, they usually fail some of them. | |
| Sep 10, 2015 at 23:53 | comment | added | feetwet | @Gilles perhaps you could elaborate? AFAICT from SR's answer recommendations, SR would rather have no answer than a correct or potentially helpful answer poorly written? E.g., an excellent question like this one could be answered with a product name and/or link. Of course a better answer might elaborate on how all criteria are met, answerer's experience, etc. But you'd rather delete a responsive and correct single-line answer? | |
| Sep 10, 2015 at 23:33 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | Speaking from experience of Software Recommendations, your assumptions are completely out of touch with reality. What happens if you let bad answers stand is more bad answers. The answers we delete are useless, and the only way the site works at all is because we delete them. Having a site with 100% answered questions is not good if over half of them have only useless answers. | |
| Sep 10, 2015 at 14:22 | comment | added | feetwet | @Undo: Agreed. The comment nudge works wonders. Note that I intentionally took your "headline" clause out of context specifically to make the broader point of this answer. | |
| Sep 10, 2015 at 14:19 | comment | added | user1 | For what it's worth, I've actually seen a pretty decent turnover rate on my comment that I leave before deleting - I'd say one in ten either edits their answer and flags for undeletion, or posts a new answer. The rest are mostly unregistered users (or resistant to the idea of quality altogether, those are fun) which will probably never bother to do so. | |
| Sep 10, 2015 at 14:15 | history | answered | feetwet | CC BY-SA 3.0 |