Timeline for Can we add "Questions asking for advice" to the list of off-topic questions?
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| Mar 8, 2013 at 20:10 | comment | added | Jim G. | @jmort253: Right, but in all fairness, aren't those early, poor questions closed and deleted? Why do we have a double standard on Workplace.SE? | |
| Mar 8, 2013 at 19:21 | comment | added | jmort253 Mod | The best thing for us to focus on is good questions going forward, now that we have a clearer picture of what does and doesn't work. As @RhysW says, every beta has early material that the community isn't particularly proud of or that doesn't represent the current state of the site. Stack Overflow surely is a perfect example of this. | |
| Mar 8, 2013 at 17:24 | comment | added | user5305 | Every StackExchange site follows this process. They were good on topic questions at the time so they are kept around. They are free to be closed by the community if they so wish, as Jim stated above | |
| Mar 8, 2013 at 17:05 | comment | added | Jim G. | @RhysW: Right - So why do we keep obviously off-topic questions which were created during the site's inception phase? | |
| Mar 8, 2013 at 15:30 | comment | added | user5305 | Part of this site being a beta is to determine what is and isnt allowed and to see if it is viable as a full site. The point of the 'high rep users' isnt to scrape up a lot of rep and hold on to it, the point is to help shape what the site Should be. | |
| Mar 8, 2013 at 15:10 | comment | added | yoozer8 Mod | If the post has a score of at least 3, and has been visible on the site for at least 60 days, the reputation stays when it is deleted (source). As far as incentivizing early Beta participation, not only is there a badge for that, but it also allows you to help shape the direction of the site, so rather than adding incentive, the reputation policy prevents massive rep loss for those who helped establish the site (in the case of mass deletions). | |
| Mar 8, 2013 at 14:43 | comment | added | Jim G. | @Jim: How does that work? If an answer is sufficiently old, then the users keep their rep? Also, does that incentive people to answer lots of questions early on a site's Beta? That is before the pro temp. moderators come in and tighten the "Not Constructive" rules? | |
| Mar 8, 2013 at 14:23 | comment | added | yoozer8 Mod | If we did go back and delete a bunch of content, a lot of it would probably qualify for the users keeping the rep. | |
| Mar 8, 2013 at 3:59 | history | answered | Jim G. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |