RE: Categorized Q&A Cleanup Finally....

First, I don't see a lot of problems with categorized answers -- it's the questions that (in general) suck. So it's kind of a moot point whether or not the editors moderate up an answer in a few minutes or a few hours -- with nonsense titles and poorly worded questions, nobody's going to get much benefit from those answers.

Second, I'm not clear on who is ++-- the questions and the answers; I assume this would fall to the moderators. This seems fair to me; the section is intended to be a quality reference, and a more tyrannical hand is needed to keep it that way. (Chaotic democracy being fine for SOPW.) Should moderators receive a reward for their volunteer efforts in keeping up this section? It seems reasonable enough that the same chances of XP++-- should apply here, though I don't know if the moderators should lose XP for voting down a crappy post. Whether they vote it up or down, they are doing the job out of the goodness of their hearts. This absolutely opens up the door for abuse, but the pool of moderators/editors is probably small enough that the complaints of other monks would keep them in check.

Finally, I'd like to suggest that the promotion of good SOPW questions to Q&A not be done by just copying the ? over to Q&A with all its attendant threads. I see no problem with handing out lots of XP to people who volunteer to take a SOPW question and all its threads and rewrite into nicely formatted Q&A (with due credit of course, to the original posters). Doing that is a LOT of work, but lots of XP could be a great incentive.

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RE: RE: Categorized Q&A Cleanup Finally.... by PipTigger (Hermit) on Jun 08, 2000 at 14:16 UTC
I agree that the dispersion of werk amongst the pool of willing Monks would benefit the Q&A section greatly. I would love to do that kind of thing (like distilling entire threads into a clear Question and an authoritative verified Answer) whenever I have some time. Since Q&A should be established at an almost prohibitive threshold (in the name of concise accurate information both in Q's & A's), I recommend a drastic measure: It costs 127 points to post any Q or A. The first 7 moderators to review the post can each award up to 31 points back to the author. If the total awarded back surpasses the initially docked 127, the post is inducted. This way, crappy posts and spam are nearly impossible to have in the Q&A section. The cost of entry is significant (and cannot be engaged in indefinitely) but quality posters stand to gain significantly as well. This would keep the bar high and (although it might seem somewhat unfair) it would likely yield a slow growing, highly reliable section. This is where we could amass the core of PerlMonks' growing knowledge base as new Perl problems arise and are considered and solved and thoroughly described. I like very much the idea of such an elevated knowledge resource and an accordingly high risk involved in contribution. What do other Monks think? TTFN & Shalom. -PipTigger p.s. Byslexia is a Ditch!	[reply]

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by PipTigger (Hermit) on Jun 08, 2000 at 14:16 UTC

This way, crappy posts and spam are nearly impossible to have in the Q&A section. The cost of entry is significant (and cannot be engaged in indefinitely) but quality posters stand to gain significantly as well. This would keep the bar high and (although it might seem somewhat unfair) it would likely yield a slow growing, highly reliable section. This is where we could amass the core of PerlMonks' growing knowledge base as new Perl problems arise and are considered and solved and thoroughly described. I like very much the idea of such an elevated knowledge resource and an accordingly high risk involved in contribution. What do other Monks think? TTFN & Shalom.

-PipTigger

p.s. Byslexia is a Ditch!

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