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.
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tye
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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...
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See Categorized Q&A Suggestion for one of my earlier suggestions (focuses
more on XP gains and losses, but...)
As a Q&A Editor (for some time, quite active,
but recently too swamped to devote lots of time to it), let
me make this observation. Editing Categorized Questions and Answers is pretty
difficult.
- When a user posts a bad title, but I/we don't
find it until there have been answers, it is quite tedious
to correct the title. We have to go into each response
and edit each title to make them all match.
- There has been an increasingly increasingly large
number of posts to Q&A (the increase has been increasing ;-).
This displays the success of PM, but it makes it harder to
stay on top of the questions and screen them for content. It
is pretty easy to miss a question or three.
- It is difficult to "move" a post from Q&A
to SoPW. You have seen how I handle that, I'm sure. It
takes two browser windows, quite a bit of cut-and-paste,
and some status bar perusing to get links to work to and
from the new node.
I would like to see:
- New questions remain in a "New Questions" area,
unassigned to a category until an editor assigns them. This
prevents a flood of questions from escaping our notice.
(Currently, we can see the last ten questions posted. If
there are more than ten un-moderated questions, the excess
will go completely unedited.)
- Allow Editors to change a Question Title, and have
that new title 'cascade' to all answers. The titles are
the single-most important part of a question, because that
is how users search for answers. It should be easier to
maintain those titles.
- Allow a Question to move to SoPW, taking all answers
with it. I understand from earlier, offline discussions
with vroom that Q&A nodes exist in a different format than
SoPW nodes. It will not be easy to move Q&A nodes. However,
I know that I have tried to 'delay' the editing of a
misplaced question, because it has already received answers.
I didn't want to delete the answers because they were
helpful, but I couldn't move the question and take the answers
with it. So, I move it to "Unassigned" to come
back to it later.
- A willingness to add/modify categories. Some of the
categories are just too broad (see CGI for example).
Russ
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