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comment What guidance should we give people asking Unclear questions on Stack Overflow?
This text goes to great lengths to avoid the word "research".
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comment Show examples of good and bad questions
@laura it becomes a game of percentages of percentages of percentages -- how many people is this really helping? Remember too that every single new Stack Overflow user is forced to click through the How to Ask page before their first question. (Try it yourself; create a new account then click Ask Question on SO.) You could do that network-wide, with a better consolidated help page, perhaps, if we can avoid wall o 'text. That would reach those willing to read and try, though these users already do well on the network IMO, so then the question again: who is this really reaching?
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comment Show examples of good and bad questions
The /ask page is ancient and needs to be rebuilt from scratch with better just in time contextual help based on who the user is and what they are doing. I worry that this new help center sounds suspiciously like the old help text that nobody read, either. This time it'll be different, I guess, but users won't read anything you put on the screen. At least not the ones who most need to.
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comment Do not automatically expire single-use tags on Stack Overflow
@gilles overspecific is indeed harmful. That was one of the issues which triggered the Great Tagging Purge on gaming.se for example. (oh, this is an Xbox game? Well, does that matter if it is the same game on every platform, and this question is not in any way Xbox specific?) Over-specific single use tags are distracting noise and broken windows.
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comment Do not automatically expire single-use tags on Stack Overflow
@mad the abstract value of "consistency" is far less valuable than actual questions on topics. We are a Q&A system, not a category and tag generation system.
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comment Do not automatically expire single-use tags on Stack Overflow
@gilles good to look at actual data. You'll note that none of [bbc-micro], [wifidog], [nethack] are valid tags on SU today, which lends credence to the claim that such incredibly low-usage tags are not necessary. superuser.com/tags
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comment Do not automatically expire single-use tags on Stack Overflow
@ben well from my perspective, the problem is that the world really doesn't need that one single question on Spec Ops The Line on gaming.se, for the rest of eternity. Gaming is about community, and community requires more than one question on a topic, otherwise that topic just isn't germane to the community and is little more than noise/distraction. But this is better taken to gaming meta.
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answered Do not automatically expire single-use tags on Stack Overflow
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comment Help us clean up the Android tag
this is why multiple tags exist. Click on more than one..
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