Quantcast
Channel: Active questions tagged questions - Meta Stack Overflow
Viewing all articles
Browse latest Browse all 603

Using upvotes to fight bad questions

$
0
0

I've seen several discussions on how to stop the flood of bad questions and thereby improve signal to noise. Currently we can close them but it's seems at least on some popular tags that it's hard to keep up. The questioner is still getting answers and therefor getting what they are looking for but harming those that take the time to research the basics of the problem and ask a specific question rather than a "help me debug my code

One way I see that this could be changed is that users with a rep of less than X can ask questions but only get answers is the question get more than Y upvotes.

Does the community believe an approach like that would be appropriate / valuable?

EDITI'm not trying to equate low rep and bad questions but those that have high rep have been around for some time and know the rules and as long as it's worth the effort to post the low quality question there's less incentive to do the effort of analysing the problem before posting


Viewing all articles
Browse latest Browse all 603

Trending Articles



<script src="https://jsc.adskeeper.com/r/s/rssing.com.1596347.js" async> </script>