Timeline for Revisiting HNQ participation for IPS
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| Mar 25, 2019 at 13:41 | comment | added | Walfrat |
Many sites on the network are technical/professional sites, and some segments of their userbases don't want or need to see our questions. Ironically, I'm the opposite, I come form SO and HNQ about electronics or other "technical" stuff don't interest me.
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| Mar 13, 2019 at 13:08 | comment | added | Magisch | I would posit that starting with allowing at most 1 or 2 IPS questions at once should give moderators the tools and limited volume they need to quickly remove problematic questions while not flooding the community with too much work to moderate on. Then, after a while, we could re-evaluate. | |
| Mar 12, 2019 at 18:26 | comment | added | scohe001 | @Rainbacon even more than a year before that, there were talks of the ill-effects of HNQ on our site. This discussion garnered the most attention, but there was definitely talk of it every few months when we'd have another question blow up. | |
| Mar 12, 2019 at 18:21 | comment | added | Rainbacon | @undefined It's not so much that IPS didn't want to be on HNQ. What happened is that we were removed from it, and then the community realized that it could be a good thing, which it has. Before we went off HNQ, the mods were swamped dealing with the amount of flags being generated by chatty comments. It was hard to focus on improving the quality of questions and answers. Being off of HNQ has given us the opportunity to address the issues we have with question and answer quality. | |
| Mar 12, 2019 at 14:50 | comment | added | gparyani | @HDE226868 Yep; I was going to propose that but I read the last section of the question which says they are not planning to implement that. | |
| Mar 12, 2019 at 14:21 | comment | added | HDE 226868 | @gparyani I'm not sure I support with that proposal; I agree with TheLethalCoder there that it doesn't seem fair for a small subset of meta users to effectively modify the preferences for everyone on the site - particularly given that a lot of users find smaller sites after beginning on larger, traditional, technical/professional sites. I like the everyone-chooses-individually-whether-to-have-the-HNQ as is currently proposed, although allowing people to customize which sites they see would be nice. But I guess this is all a discussion for that Meta post. | |
| Mar 12, 2019 at 14:09 | comment | added | undefined | I would just like to comment, that I wasn't aware of the fact that IPS didn't want to be on the HNQ at all. I just wondered that there are no IPS questions anymore. But because there were no IPS HNQ I didn't visit this stack anymore. So yes, I would say IPS should definitely go back to the HNQ. In my opinion IPS is loosing traffic and users if they're not on it | |
| Mar 11, 2019 at 23:25 | comment | added | gparyani | FYI to solve the fourth bullet, I proposed a feature on MSE to allow specific sites to be excluded from other specific sites' HNQ lists (e.g. exclude questions from this site from appearing in the HNQ list on Stack Overflow). | |
| Mar 11, 2019 at 21:35 | history | answered | HDE 226868 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |