Timeline for How do you tell an answerer that you think their answer needs work?
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| Aug 3, 2018 at 4:18 | comment | added | apaul | @tuskiomi if it helps, I just noticed that an answer I wrote just last night was downvoted and deleted interpersonal.stackexchange.com/questions/17222/… | |
| Aug 3, 2018 at 4:03 | comment | added | user20 | @apaul ah yes, the chat rooms. i like them almost more than the site. I'll drop by some time. | |
| Aug 3, 2018 at 4:01 | comment | added | apaul | @tuskiomi Seems like something better taken to Meta.SE, but it's not something I've observed on this stack. What you may be seeing is people just getting to know each other over time. Higher rep users usually post more and tend to be interacting with the site more, so after a while you begin to recognize the regulars. Not so much about rep as it is about having talked, or in my case argued, with the person several times before. Take a look at the Awkward Silence Chatroom sometime. There's a pretty wide range of users with very different rep levels all chatting and getting to know each other. | |
| Aug 3, 2018 at 3:51 | comment | added | user20 | @apaul trust me, i used to know. i delete and recreate all of my stack exchange accounts when their rep is too high. it used to be at 500, but I've topped out twice at 12k ish. I've noticed that after 200-300 rep the scrutiny of your posts is reduced majorly. at 1000-2500, people will comment minimally on your answer and largely ignore the content so long as it's expository in nature, and at 5,000 and up you start to get some recognition based on your name, and you get upvoted for being you. specifically on rpgSE, tongue and cheek answers get upvoted instead of downvoted among other sites | |
| Aug 3, 2018 at 3:32 | comment | added | apaul | @tuskiomi Oh, I see what happened now... Didn't realize that you were the same user. You can always edit that answer into a more fully formed answer, it reads more like commentary with a very brief answer tacked on as an after thought. Trust me, being a "high rep user" doesn't come with immediate acceptance into some sort of inner circle. It usually means that everything you say and do on a site gets put under the microscope, and it's not great. If anything people tend to hold your posts to a higher standard and are much more vocal when they don't like something. | |
| Aug 3, 2018 at 1:47 | comment | added | user20 | no, see above for why | |
| Aug 3, 2018 at 1:36 | comment | added | apaul | @tuskiomi Not really all that interested in having a discussion in the comments section. If you have something meaningful to say, write your own answer. | |
| Aug 3, 2018 at 0:26 | comment | added | user20 | [off topic] it's worth pointing out that the solution to this would be to obfuscate a user's points, username, and answer of all personal data to everyone until someone makes an effort to go to the user's personal page. AFAIK this would collapse the stack exchange families and thus be a big hit to the org, so it would never be done. | |
| Aug 3, 2018 at 0:20 | comment | added | user20 | it is disputed, the families have enough rep to smite down such users to the pits of hell. this can be seen in ppcg SE very strongly. this there is a strong, innate, hive mind pull towards these families without actually caring what's typed. while i can go now in depth about the flaws of the stack exchange model, the result is that the effort of agreement for the family members low, while the effort of agreement for any other user remains quite high. | |
| Aug 3, 2018 at 0:03 | comment | added | user20 | that's a really bad answer and here's why. stack exchange promotes electronic nepotism in a very strong way. we can observe this most in sites like electronics.se, where the disparity of views on answers are intensely weighted towards a small family of members. the operation is much the same here. the working principal is as follows: so long as there is a lot of text, and a lot of reputation, members of such a family don't care what is written, and issue an upvote. this, among other powers granted to high rep users lets those families with high reputation remain undisputed, and when.... | |
| S Feb 27, 2018 at 18:04 | history | mod moved comments to chat | |||
| S Feb 27, 2018 at 18:04 | comment | added | HDE 226868 Mod | Comments are not for extended discussion; this conversation has been moved to chat. Being a bit more talkative on meta is fine; having a discussion degrade into baiting and arguing is not. Further such unconstructive comments will be deleted. | |
| Feb 26, 2018 at 22:36 | history | edited | sphennings | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 26, 2018 at 22:23 | history | edited | apaul | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 26, 2018 at 22:12 | history | answered | apaul | CC BY-SA 3.0 |