Timeline for Possible Solution for Zombies (unanswered questions)
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| Aug 22, 2019 at 13:12 | comment | added | IEatBagels | @pacmaninbw Don't forget that it's not because there's an answer that it's a good one -> we shouldn't go upvoting every answer with a zero score on zombies | |
| Jul 27, 2019 at 19:28 | comment | added | dfhwze | This only goes to prove that zombie farming is an unrewarding endeavor. the reward is collecting some of the rarer badges: archeologist, revival, necromancer, .. and intrinsically, the reward is that the overall quality of the site increases when more questions get thorough answers. Isn't the ultimate goal to create a vivid wiki for sharing knowledge and experience? | |
| Jul 27, 2019 at 13:29 | vote | accept | pacmaninbwMod | ||
| Jul 27, 2019 at 13:26 | comment | added | pacmaninbw Mod | Have the number of zombies gone down since you posted this answer? More specifically how many of the 1000 zombies with unvoted answers have dropped out? | |
| Jul 26, 2019 at 17:16 | comment | added | Peter Taylor | In terms of going after up-votes, I seem to be getting more upvotes per answer for answers to C# zombies than for answers to new Python questions, so it's not quite as simple as you suggest (unless your instinct for hotness is well honed). | |
| Jul 26, 2019 at 9:38 | comment | added | Peilonrayz Mod | @Graipher Don't be get any funny ideas now... :P | |
| Jul 26, 2019 at 7:53 | comment | added | Toby Speight | FWIW, I regularly look through the "New Answers to Old Questions" list (available to 10k+ users) and reward everything good I find there. So answering old questions gets at least my attention! | |
| Jul 25, 2019 at 14:56 | comment | added | Graipher | Glad to see I could be hit by a bus and the Python tag would still get answers :) | |
| Jul 25, 2019 at 5:31 | comment | added | AlexV | @Peilonrayz: I thought of some numpy questions that I was (more or less) recently looking on. | |
| Jul 24, 2019 at 23:46 | comment | added | VisualMelon | "What is the incentive for me to spend hours laboriously answering a question that no-one's going to see?" people do see them, because they suddenly appear on the front-page again. Granted it's unlikely to make the HNQ (all the better I say), but it's not a forlorn hope. | |
| Jul 24, 2019 at 21:21 | comment | added | Peilonrayz Mod | @AlexV Yeah I try to keep away from the first one personally. So it'd make sense for it to be a zombie pool. I think those sort of questions are one of the biggest reasons Python has zombies. I'm not too familiar with the second pool, are you referring to posts made by say Graipher or myself that go unanswered? | |
| Jul 24, 2019 at 20:59 | comment | added | AlexV | Well, Python... IMHO there seem to be two opposite zombie pools: beginner questions that grow tiring over time especially if they came in large "batches" e.g. from programming challenges. On the other side there are specialised applications that require domain knowledge and thought. Sometimes you take the time to look at them and play with different approaches, write up an answer. and the OPs simply don't seem to care anymore. | |
| Jul 24, 2019 at 19:52 | comment | added | pacmaninbw Mod | Guess I'm going to have to learn Python. | |
| Jul 24, 2019 at 19:40 | history | answered | PeilonrayzMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |