Questions tagged [answer-quality]
Metric used to work out if an answer is sub-par and needs "attention". Not publicly detailed or gutted. (Copied from https://meta.stackexchange.com/tags/answer-quality/info.)
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Is score-per-view a good metric for quality? If so, does this mean that SO is getting better content on average? Or is this just recency bias?
I was investigating a hunch: I felt that question quantity was down but I also felt that question quality was overall better. Question quantity being down has been rehashed elsewhere and is no hunch. ...
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Is there an option to let other users review my answer? [duplicate]
This question came from the following use case:
I post a question on Stack Overflow
Sometime later (with the question still unanswered), I find the solution to my problem and post an answer myself.
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Badge or bounty to encourage questions and answers with good quality (pass an exam)
Is it possible to consider a mandatory badge/bounty for newly joined contributors? The badge/bounty is earned by taking a training and passing an exam; a new contributor can post questions or answers ...
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Should answers that are "completely off base" (i.e. the writer simply misread the question) just be deleted? How should we moderate them? [duplicate]
Some questions are inherently very confusing and difficult.
Here for example is an answer where the answerer missed the point (thinking it was something to do with how to enter a color as floats, ...
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Outdated answers: up next, changes to sorting menu
Over the last year, we have been chipping away at the problem of Outdated Answers, highly upvoted answers that may no longer be the best solution to a problem. I wanted to let you know what we're ...
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Outdated Answers: accepted answer is now unpinned on Stack Overflow
Last week, as part of our Outdated Answers project, we ran a test on Stack Overflow to see what would happen if we stopped pinning the accepted answer to the top of the list of answers. As expected, ...
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Outdated Answers: unpinning the accepted answer A/B test
Update (2021-09-08): The experiment ran 2021-09-02 through 2021-09-08. We permanently unpinned the accepted answer 2021-09-08.
As we mentioned two weeks ago, tomorrow we are shipping a test on Stack ...
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Outdated Answers: results from flagging exercise and next steps
As part of our Outdated Answers initiative, we shipped a temporary data-collection exercise in May. Unfortunately, the results were inconclusive and didn't lead to any big aha moments. After I briefly ...
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How bad does any answer need to be to warrant flagging under the outdated answer project?
I'm feeling some hesitation on flagging an accepted answer on the basis of either "Newer, more efficient" or "poses a risk", and would like to have further elaboration on the ...
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Outdated Accepted Answers: flagging exercise has begun
Update: The outcome of this exercise led two major site changes*:
Accepted answers are no longer pinned.
A new way to sort answers. See Trending: A new answer sorting option for more information.
As ...
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Outdated Answers: results from use-case survey
In February, we announced an initiative to address outdated answers on Stack Overflow. Here's an update on what we've done since then and what we're working on now.
TL;DR: We are still conducting ...
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What would be appropriate metrics to measure how well we are dealing with ageing content?
That last meta post about the outdated answers project got me thinking. It mostly deals with identifying outdated content as well as what possibly can be done about it (including unpinning accepted ...
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Survey questions for outdated answers
Update: Thank you MSO for the responses. We've incorporated your feedback into the proposed questions and the site satisfaction survey is now live for March 2021.
We are kicking off a project to ...
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Introducing Outdated Answers project
In our blog post last month on our Community & Public Platform strategy & roadmap for Q1 2021, we announced an initiative to address outdated answers on Stack Overflow. Today, I'll give you ...
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Is an opinion or assumption-based answer eligible for being "Not an answer" (NAA)?
I recently came across a couple of answers which rather almost entirely consist of assumptions or opinions than are based upon facts. Often answered to off-topic questions like seeking for ...
