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As a, supposedly, high-rep user, I don't care whether or not people think a question I'm asking is dumb. I suspect that most of the competent high-rep users feel the same. To be honest, it looks like you've taken isolated data and extrapolated an assumption out of it. Why not just ask us if we're put off because we think a question could be perceived as dumb or whether it's more likely that we have honed our searching skills?
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From knowing you a bit I already assume that you, and many others, wouldn't care. You also have high searching and investigative skills. There's no doubt about that. My thoughts come from private conversations with developers and yes, there's definitely a low data set.
I'm not sure how many people are going to put up their hand and say "yep - I don't want my name shown front-and-centre because I think I'll look dumb".
There was another motivation to this which was to see the effect of removing the person from the question and letting the question be treated on its own merits. I have worried for a long time that a name or a reputation level immediately biases those answering (or flagging) questions.
I'm ready to be wrong about this but thought it was worth an experiment. If it's out-and-out a bad idea then I'll flip the switch back on.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: There was another motivation to this which was to see the effect of removing the person from the question and letting the question be treated on its own merits. I have worried for a long time that a name or a reputation level immediately biases those answering (or flagging) questions.
I actually assumed that was the real reason, and while I find it commendable and have absolutely nothing against it, I believe you need to find a way to take care of the drawbacks first. The handling of spam and abuse being the major ones as far as I'm concerned.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: I believe you need to find a way to take care of the drawbacks first.
Absolutely.
What I've done is that once you report a message you will see a shield icon. Hover over that icon and you will see a popup that provides a link to the member's account.
It's an extension of the experiment: flag messages on the merit of the message.
Then again if this is a total waste of time I will turn it off. It's better to try and fail...
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: Hover over that icon
I'm often enough sitting with an ipad, especially when I'm not working and actually have time to help out with spam...
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Hi,
Off Topic:
Do the menus work for you on iPad? I have to go to the 'All Boards' page and navigate that huge list to get to the desired forum on Safari. I use to be able to hold down on the menu and it would open... but it stopped working a few weeks back.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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The left side menus work.
But the horizontal menus below the orange bar only works with the defalt selection, since hover doesn't work.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: But the horizontal menus below the orange bar only works with the defalt selection, since hover doesn't work.
How is it now?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Works fine now.
Sorry for not responding until now, but I experienced another bug (which I will report separately), so I had to wait until I had the computer and the iPad side by side so I could find the message, test and respond to it.
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They did and now don't. I'll get them back for touch screens today or tomorrow
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Another good point.
How about: once a question is reported the person question asker appears for moderators.
Or I could simply make the question poster appear to moderators regardless.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Simple enough solution.
I don't care which one you choose.
But personally I'd do the simplest one, as you have already chosen to trust moderators/protectors.
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It's moot since I can't even reach the right side bar (Discussions, Questions, spam and approvals) on an iPad.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: Why not just ask us if we're put off If someone is shy about posting a question I think they'd also be shy about answering that question.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Hi,
Just my 2 cents:
If you could read the internal employee message boards/mailing lists at one of the largest software companies... you'd see the same thing... the senior engineers hardly ever ask any questions. I think it's simply because they are the most experience problem solvers. Almost any problem can be solved with a debugger and 1 experenced engineer.
It's an interesting idea but I highly doubt you'll see any change in the numbers.
Are you working with some other dataset I don't know about? Are you seeing high rep members creating sockpuppets to ask questions?
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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Hmmm, you have a point, but I suspect that it does more harm than good. Ya gotta try though.
Primarily I agree. I ask very few questions and when I do have something I might ask about, I try to do as much as I can to diagnose the issue and give a full accurate description -- often with the result that I solve it myself. And maybe write a Tip.
But when there is something that still eludes me, I have no issue with asking -- I so want those other two platinums!
Maybe give members above a certain reputation the option to obfuscate their name?
Maybe similar to the option I have of posting as myself or as my Group?
Sinerely,
Member 2587207
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I think you are spot on with this.
-- rants are the vehicle of the lazy and uninspired - JSOP 2/2018
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That is really a very personal Statement: In case a member thinks he is to good/high rep to ask a question un-anonymously (how this would really called this un-anonymously?), he does not deserve an answer!
As a voice of low rep members I still would like, that questions can't be downvoted.
Only my two Cents to the discussion.
Bruno
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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It's not about being too good to ask a question. It's about worrying what people would think if they asked a dumb question.
It's a small percentage of users for sure but it got us thinking "why do we need to identify the person asking the question at all?" Hence the experiment.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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"if they asked a dumb question", I think that is exactly the same like "to be too good, to fail". But nevertheless a good Experiment, looking Forward for the results (if the results would ever be published).
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Personally I think this is a good idea. Benefits I see:
- Question from a user with lower reputation is not so easily down-voted. The vote is probably is more related to the question itself. Probably also applies to high rep questions.
- Personally I'm not worried if the question is dumb or not, but I think that some people are afraid of answering a question from a high-rep user. Anonymous questions should help that.
Few problems
- If the question is inappropriate, how do I report the user?
- If the OP posts a comment to the question, I can see who he/she is. Shouldn't also the OP's comments be anonymous
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Imagine, a question is not clear enough and some one is posting a comment to bring lights to the question. High-rep member reply the question and His comment is visible. In this case everyone knows who's an author of the question.
Personally, i don't afraid to ask a question, because nobody's perfect and does not have enough experience in everything he starts to work with.
Quote: Who asks not stray
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On the other hand, how can i report a user who's posting spamm on QA forum?
modified 21-Feb-18 2:49am.
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Only FYI: It seems not to be completely anonymous. Having a look to the source of the question one will see the author information of the question.
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Bruno, i can't find a way to take " a look to the source of the question"
Where can i find such of functionality?
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