Timeline for Users with many questions having negatives votes
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| Mar 17, 2017 at 10:13 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://meta.mathoverflow.net/ with https://meta.mathoverflow.net/
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| Jan 17, 2017 at 17:54 | comment | added | Joseph Van Name | Perhaps users who have asked several borderline questions but who have not answered any (non-CW) questions could receive a message saying something like "You have not answered any questions on this site yet. Would you instead like to give an answer instead of asking another question?" | |
| Jan 17, 2017 at 17:54 | comment | added | Joseph Van Name | It seems like a good way to promote high quality questions from knowledgeable mathematicians is to encourage users to not just ask questions but to answer (preferrably non-CW) questions as well. After all, if someone is unable to give answers to (non-CW) Mathoverflow level questions, then that person will probably not ask the best questions here on Mathoverflow. If a regular user is encouraged to answer (preferably non-CW) Mathoverflow questions and not just ask them, then such a user will obtain a greater sense of whether a question would be good for MathOverflow or borderline. | |
| Jan 2, 2017 at 7:58 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | I assume that, being now in the Stack Exchange networks, that temporary post bans for users who ask too many badly received (downvoted, closed, deleted) questions are applied also on MO. But I do not know details about how these post bans work. (As far as I can remember, it can influence mostly new users. A user who already gained some non-negligible reputation from their previous posts is very likely "safe" from the post ban.) | |
| Jan 2, 2017 at 1:20 | comment | added | Archie | Thank you Todd for clarifying. Should you decide to post this as an answer I'd accept it, if you see it fit. | |
| Jan 2, 2017 at 0:27 | comment | added | Todd Trimble Mod | My own experience with the site (which is plenty) is that crackpot posts are identified and downvoted/closed very, very rapidly. Unless some evidence is presented to the contrary, I just don't see reason to worry about this imagined scenario. (I definitely do not support any measure that treats Math.SE as a dumping ground for low-quality questions.) | |
| Jan 1, 2017 at 23:28 | comment | added | Gerhard Paseman | If a newcomer happens upon MathOverflow and decides to judge it by only 2 minutes of attention, there isn't much we can do if we do not get to pick the two minutes for the newcomer. I suspect the turnaway rate for your proposed scenario is less than 1% of that for all scenarios combined, and that retention and empowering are larger issues among those who may decide to make MathOverflow part of their routine. I fear trying to tune the system to help those few who have neither your a nor your b available will throw it out of whack. Gerhard "Some Moles Should Be Ignored" Paseman, 2017.01.01. | |
| Jan 1, 2017 at 21:20 | comment | added | Archie | I do of course, but the downvotes may not appear soon enough to warn the first 5 or 10 readers, and there may well be newcomers to MO among those. | |
| Jan 1, 2017 at 20:25 | comment | added | Todd Trimble Mod | I'd think that (b) would send a clear signal, even to newcomers. Why don't you think so? | |
| Jan 1, 2017 at 20:23 | history | edited | Archie | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 1, 2017 at 20:06 | history | asked | Archie | CC BY-SA 3.0 |