Timeline for What makes an answer good, and what makes an answer get feedback?
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| Aug 5, 2012 at 11:34 | comment | added | Raphael Mod | @Kaveh: You mistake my intention. I do not propose to stress reputation more than necessary. Note that SE fundamentally relies on its reward mechanisms, though. I am far more concerned with a lack of feedback, be it votes or comments. My problem is that long/involved answers or answers to old questions often don't get any feedback. If my long answer is not well-written, a comment saying so gives me the opportunity to improve it. | |
| Jul 31, 2012 at 7:40 | comment | added | Kaveh | Well-written long answer also get good amount of up votes, the problem is mainly with long answers which are not well-written where a reader asks oneself why should I spent time and energy to read this long answer and doesn't see any reason to do so. | |
| Jul 31, 2012 at 7:38 | comment | added | Kaveh | @Raphael, if you want to have people read a post share it. There are several serious problems with your proposal. IMHO, in general the system works best when reputation is considered a side issue not the main one. If someone is here mainly to earn reputation that would be way more troubling for me than the current short comings. So I think treating reputation as currency is the wrong attitude. | |
| Jul 30, 2012 at 20:05 | comment | added | Raphael Mod | See, that's the problem: users might decide to not invest the effort in the future, which makes the site a worse place. Nobody is talking about artificially inflating votes, but finding ways to make more people find and read such answers, or to provide other ways to reward the answerers. Regarding bounties, that's just an awkward process to reward somebody. Sadly, other proposals don't get much love. | |
| Jul 30, 2012 at 20:01 | history | answered | Jukka Suomela | CC BY-SA 3.0 |