Timeline for Can we be more helpful?
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| Oct 7, 2016 at 17:48 | comment | added | Adam Wykes | That's a poor summary of the post and you know it. | |
| Oct 7, 2016 at 12:19 | comment | added | ArtOfCode Mod | @AdamWykes Because (a) comments are ephemeral and subject to much easier deletion than posts, and (b) it threw insults at multiple people without even attempting to follow the Be Nice policy. | |
| Sep 21, 2016 at 18:58 | comment | added | Adam Wykes | Why was my comment about how I managed SME's deleted in its entirety? | |
| Sep 19, 2016 at 14:22 | comment | added | Andy | Gah! I should have known that one too. Thank you. | |
| Sep 19, 2016 at 14:06 | comment | added | Adam Wykes | Subject Matter Experts. But mind you, it shouldn't matter. None of my work experience should matter; you should judge me (and everyone else) on the basis of the worth of their ideas alone. I only brought it up out of frustration. | |
| Sep 19, 2016 at 14:02 | comment | added | Andy | @AdamWykes, I'm trying to parse your message about SMEs above, but I'm stuck on the acronym since I use it in my line of work for a few different things (yay! Acronym soup!). Are you referring to Small/Medium Enterprises or the professional organization SME, or something else entirely? | |
| Sep 19, 2016 at 13:47 | comment | added | Andy | Using the queries in this MSO post, it looks like we have 378 closed questions vs 73 reopened questions. That gives us a 20% reopen rate. Note: These numbers don't account for everything since SEDE can't see all deleted posts, but the logic of that post was confirmed by Shog9 in another answer to the same question | |
| Sep 18, 2016 at 22:45 | comment | added | Adam Wykes | I think it's safe to say discussion between you and me is over. Feel free to go ahead on this path of yours. I'm sure it will get better at some point just by repeating the same thing over and over and over again, right? | |
| Sep 18, 2016 at 22:20 | comment | added | ArtOfCode Mod | Consider that if your attempts have been rejected each time, perhaps there's a reason for that. If you want to change site policy, fine, but you'd better have a good reason for going against the advice of the SE staff, who have vastly more experience in this kind of thing than you do. | |
| Sep 18, 2016 at 19:13 | comment | added | Adam Wykes | The problem with that approach is that the most active members of this community aside from me consist of you and the people who were here with you from the beginning and are stuck just as deep in their own morass of confirmation bias and sunk costs fallacy. Considering how that has gone the last half dozen times I've tried it (hint: there was little to no actual rational consideration, only justification), I think my time will be better spent learning database queries and musing darkly over whether it would be worth my time to get a better hardware site started on Area 51 | |
| Sep 18, 2016 at 17:00 | comment | added | ArtOfCode Mod | Yes, it's possible. Add your thoughts to the discussion, or open a new one along the same lines, and the community can consider and vote on them. | |
| Sep 18, 2016 at 16:02 | comment | added | Adam Wykes | That is wonderful, but I and others are now here to tell you guys that you may have considered wrong. Is it even possible? | |
| Sep 18, 2016 at 15:45 | comment | added | ArtOfCode Mod | It's not that I'm unwilling to consider it; it's that I - and many others - have considered it before, before you were first on this site, and decided that's not how we should do it. | |
| Sep 18, 2016 at 15:28 | comment | added | Adam Wykes | My long-standing, untested due to rampant confirmation bias, suggestion is summarized in bold above (as you well know). It is also essentially the suggestion of the OP listed in bold in his question, which you already told us is not something you are willing to consider. | |
| Sep 18, 2016 at 15:14 | comment | added | ArtOfCode Mod | That said, I do appreciate you removing the accusation; thank you. | |
| Sep 18, 2016 at 15:13 | comment | added | ArtOfCode Mod | So come up with a better idea. I've been trying to come up with something that'll solve our issues, but I haven't got anything. I find it quite annoying that people complain about this site that so many people have actually worked quite hard on, without actually bothering to try and help. If you have a better solution, I'd like to hear it. If not, I don't see any benefit to having insidious complaints about the site sit around. | |
| Sep 18, 2016 at 2:47 | comment | added | Adam Wykes | I'm not blessed with a background in database queries, but I'm working on it. However, I will note in the interim that it hardly matters what the real time is: people feel like it's too long, your site has absolutely terrible stats for close to open ratios, and no one currently able to do anything about this seems interested in changing much of anything major around here despite the fact that the current MO isn't working in some way or another; you've proposed small tweaks and personal changes, but unless you personally were the entire problem (not even I think that), that's not going to help. | |
| Sep 18, 2016 at 2:43 | comment | added | Adam Wykes | I've gone ahead and removed the accusation of people from here working against Area 51 proposals because while the memory is distinct in my mind, I can't find any proof of it ever happening that I could link to, so it may as well never have happened. | |
| Sep 18, 2016 at 2:42 | history | edited | Adam Wykes | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
removed "baseless" accusation
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| Sep 16, 2016 at 21:43 | comment | added | ArtOfCode Mod | Additionally, I'd like you to link to an instance where a moderator of this site has discouraged efforts for another site on A51 without a valid reason to do so. I don't believe any of our current moderators would do such a thing. | |
| Sep 16, 2016 at 21:41 | comment | added | ArtOfCode Mod | You just won't believe me, will you? I challenge you - go over to SEDE and write a few queries. Find out the average time from last edit before reopening to reopening. I bet you it's less than a day in most if not all cases. | |
| Sep 16, 2016 at 15:57 | history | answered | Adam Wykes | CC BY-SA 3.0 |