Timeline for Request: Relax a bit on moderation and don't be so eager to shut down questions
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| Sep 8, 2014 at 8:22 | comment | added | NoDataDumpNoContribution | In theory everything here should evolve around posting and answering good questions. So the key question is alway how to improve bad questions. At some point you can not anymore because you don't know what the original poster wanted and he is not making visible effort to improve his question. Then you have to dismiss this question and however polite you do it, people will never like it. I think that a bit of frustration is unavoidable. But on the other hand criticism must always stay constructive - that's absolutely true. | |
| Aug 17, 2011 at 1:31 | comment | added | mrohlf | True, and I'm not sure if there is much that can be done about overly defensive OPs. I like Nicol Bolas's suggestion of requiring a comment for a downvote, though even if more downvoters made an effort to explain their reasoning, it would go a long way in teaching the rules to new users without provoking resentment. I have also seen a few cases where someone posted a bad question/answer and got piled on in the comments. Many of them don't seem to bother coming back to respond... | |
| Aug 16, 2011 at 23:08 | comment | added | Cyclops | You're right that some comments have been too personal or hostile, at times. But (as far as I can tell), it's usually due to a feedback loop - the OP gets a (neutral) comment about their question being unsuitable, then the OP gets defensive and unpleasant, then the replies get more unpleasant, and it builds to a flame war. While I agree that the long-timers here should show more restraint :) , I also have to say that it usually starts with some poster refusing to admit any possibility that they might be wrong... | |
| Aug 16, 2011 at 20:58 | history | answered | mrohlf | CC BY-SA 3.0 |