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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In reply to RE: Categorized Q&A Cleanup Finally.... by neshura
in thread Categorized Q&A Cleanup Finally.... by vroom

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