The 'Report' Button and You
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Posted May 2, 2017, 1:32 PM UTC
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"We will be announcing new measures regarding questions on MFA shortly."
I feel this post would be much more effective if it was posting with those new measures at the same time.
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Alright, this is something that has been unclear in the past. One the main issues I see with the clogged /new queue is that any random post will normally generate between 1-5 answers and quickly get swept under the tide of the incoming posts from /new. Simple Questions is a thread for just that, simple questions. There are a lot of questions that deserve their own post, but at least half of the new queue fits into Simple Questions. The SQ thread every day generally has really good participation, and questions that wouldn't necessarily get answered in the /new queue are visible for long enough for someone to actually get a decent answer.
In terms of "against the rules", if there are 3 posts in the past hour about "what pants fit my bicc thighs", that's pretty much the definition of spam posts. Those should go in Simple Questions, since the same thing gets asked and answered almost every day.
This seems more like a post of the mods being angry that they have read more reports than usual than anything else.
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There are a lot of questions that deserve their own post, but at least half of the new queue fits into Simple Questions.
We have come up with a plan that we think will solve this.
In terms of "against the rules"
The rules are in need of an update, we still have to enforce the rules as they are stated.
This seems more like a post of the mods being angry that they have read more reports than usual than anything else.
It's not that. It's because when we receive +20 reports in addition to regular reports it hides posts and comments that do need action.
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This seems more like it will be better discussed later today when the plan is actually released, so can we table this discussion until then? I'd rather not start discussing it and actually end up just bringing up points you guys are going to make later in the day anyway.
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Sure thing.
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This post should be in the 'Simple Questions' thread.
Reported.