As The Workplace grows and looks to leave Beta, I think there are a few things cleanup duties that we should start doing to make the site tidier. Rather than create giant laundry lists which have less than stellar motivational powers, I am going to toss in what I'm doing and why I'm doing it, and the community can act (or not) as preferred.
Since this is still a (relatively) small site, cleanup is easy, and we can improve the quality of the site to make it a better resource for future users.
Project #1: Duplicate Review
The following five questions are duplicates with answers that have over 500 views:
- How can you evaluate your market value?
- How can I delay job offer acceptance?
- Optimal office size: cubicles versus small rooms versus open plan?
- How long can I wait to respond to a job offer?
- When should someone accept more responsibilities without more money?
Since these are relatively high-view closed questions, I want to make sure of the following:
- The question is actually a duplicate
- The question is adequately answered
- The original question contains all the information in the duplicate
Here is the pseudo-workflow I am using:
For the 5 questions listed above, here is the action I have taken:
- Added this answer to the original
- Added this answer
- Added this answer
- No action (accidentally voted to reopen)
- Voted to reopen
Next steps:
- There are 13 questions with 200-500 views
- Questions with "no action" may be candidates for deletion
If my approach can use refinement, or if someone can suggest a better way to go about this sort of stuff, please feel free to let me know. I plan to do similar things with high-view/high-score closed questions to determine:
- Should they be reopened
- Should they be edited and reopened
- Should they be closed but left for future generations
- Should they be deleted
I will start a separate meta entry when I start tackling that.