(tye)Re: Q & A, should it all be moderated?

[tye]

If so, then we also need more Q&A Editors. In a related situation, I'm surprised how long many new root nodes linger not being approved (and with lots of replies, many of which are from monks high enough to approve new questions). So if the sum total of Level 7 and above monks isn't enough to keep up with new root nodes, how can we expect the current cast of Q&A Editors to keep up with not just new categorized questions but all of the new answers as well.

I'd actually prefer that new questions be moderated (and that for monks below level 3, attempts to post new categorized questions just get redirected to SoPW) but that new answers show up immediately with the old system of voting determining the order in which answers are listed and Q&A Editors being allowed to eventually drop truely bad answers.

I think the old interaction of answering, reading answers, prompting better answers, voting, etc. worked pretty good for generating good answers. The current situation just generates a lot of answers that no one sees so the 9th answerer didn't learn much from the previous 8 answerers because of the dificulty in finding all of the unapproved answers to read. Plus, being a Q&A Editor doesn't mean that you know all of the answers. So the collection of voting monks is better at rating answers than just the Q&A Editors would be.

        - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")

[tilly]

Agreed on all accounts except the number of upper level monks. I may be breaking the curve, but I have never tried to show the nodelet I would need to try to approve root nodes. If I am not breaking the curve then it needn't be so much that there aren't enough high-level monks as the fact that there are not enough spending time approving things...

[tye]

I guess I didn't make my point well since what you said was pretty much my point. There are quite a few high-level monks and it appears that very few spend much time approving posts. There aren't nearly as many Q&A Editors and I'm not certain that the time-spent-approving/monk ratio is hugely higher for that group (and I'm not accusing Q&A Editors of slacking -- but I don't want the job of Q&A Editor to be a big burden).

        - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")