Timeline for What do users from other Stack Exchange sites think of Worldbuilding Stack Exchange?
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| Jan 15, 2017 at 18:15 | comment | added | nitsua60 | I would argue that they should always be nuked, and quickly. They subvert voting and commenting, acceptance, reputation; basically, everything that makes Stacks work well (IMO). Answers belong in answer posts, where the whole design of the Stack can function properly. Probably worth discussion/meta on its own, if mods don't have a coherent approach to answers and/or tangents in comments. | |
| Jan 15, 2017 at 17:58 | comment | added | Monica Cellio Mod | @nitsua60 after a quick glance at your flag history, I think the problem is "answer in comments". It's not as clear when, or that, those should be removed, as compared to discussions or non-constructive tangents. I suspect that that there is variation on the mod team -- and within the community! -- about where to draw that line. | |
| Jan 15, 2017 at 16:35 | comment | added | nitsua60 | @MonicaCellio I appreciate that. With my flag-declined rate it seems, though, that my sense of what's "too chatty" or "not constructive" or "answer in comment" is not a good fit for the site. I sincerely hope you and the other elected moderators feel supported by the community as you firm up the graduated site's scope and practices. | |
| Sep 24, 2015 at 2:11 | comment | added | Monica Cellio Mod | I'm a big fan of moving those kinds of discussions (that aren't about the post) to chat instead. Only mods can do this and the site is very active so we probably won't notice on our own, so we rely on flags for that. Anybody in the conversation can request this too, by the way. We're happy to give you a chat room where you can go wild; just ask. | |
| Sep 23, 2015 at 14:11 | comment | added | nitsua60 | @DaaaahWhoosh I don't know that "chatty"=problem, though I guess my harping on it may convey that impression. It's just notable as a first impression. I do think when "chatty" becomes "arguments in comments over some detail of physics that has nothing to do with the OP" then it is problematic, in that I think they don't reflect well on the site/community. "Expert answers to well-posed questions" feels a little undercut by some of the bickering. | |
| Sep 23, 2015 at 14:07 | comment | added | DaaaahWhoosh | Most of the problems you mentioned are definitely ones we struggle with every day. You'll find questions here on Meta about points 2-5 of yours, and I think we're getting better at fixing most of them. However, yeah, we are a bit chatty, though I think that's a problem that all of SE faces. | |
| Sep 23, 2015 at 3:13 | history | answered | nitsua60 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |