Timeline for Some questions tend to turn into polls, is this bad and how can they be answered better?
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| Mar 16, 2017 at 16:42 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://meta.lifehacks.stackexchange.com/ with https://lifehacks.meta.stackexchange.com/
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| Jun 1, 2015 at 11:53 | comment | added | Captain Obvious | My purpose is to try and improve quality, because as much as I bash it, there's still a sliver of potential as long as the community makes a strong concerted effort. If it can switch to a philosophy of "teaching a man to fish" (I forgot about the fish version, it's better than the fire one, ha) then there is hope. The name should probably be changed to something besides "Lifehacks" too, but that's a whoooole other conversation. | |
| Jun 1, 2015 at 11:52 | comment | added | Unihedron | @JasonC When LH was still in proposal, I had high hopes for it to come with quality guides on solving everyday problems. We all know how it went. | |
| Jun 1, 2015 at 11:49 | comment | added | Captain Obvious | I think that my point in the OP may have been unclear. Issue is basically "give a man fire" vs. "teach a man how to start a fire". Because answers to some questions take the former approach, posts become an arbitrary poll of everbody's favorite way to give a man fire out of infinitely many ways. If answers took the latter approach (as in the example I posted of a "good" answer) (and no this doesn't limit to single answers), this site would stand out and answers would teach skills instead of being arbitrary object lists with everybody voting on their favorite object. | |
| Jun 1, 2015 at 11:44 | comment | added | Unihedron | To add, but not as a part of my answer here, the presence of multiple solutions seems to be a reflection of how answering works on other sites without quality control, for example cough Yahoo answers cough. | |
| Jun 1, 2015 at 11:42 | history | edited | Unihedron | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
revision.
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| Jun 1, 2015 at 11:40 | comment | added | Captain Obvious | The overlapping of answers wasn't the concern. I tried to make my example realistic but I think it was distracting. Edited. | |
| Jun 1, 2015 at 11:39 | history | answered | Unihedron | CC BY-SA 3.0 |