Answer by SpencerG for Thwart publishing duplicate and low quality questions
Reducing duplicates is something that is perpetually on our radar. One effort we are currently working on to help with that is the Staging Ground. We believe this will help reduce the overall number of...
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I had a thought when I was reading over this post and its interesting answers: Are high-reputation users answering fewer questions? specifically this answer.Why do we allow duplicates and low quality...
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Here's my take on some of these things.Duplicate questionsFor those questions that are frequently and repeatedly asked, we should be creating a General Reference question (a.k.a. Canonical Question)...
View ArticleAnswer by Chris Baker for Thwart publishing duplicate and low quality questions
I fully support the idea of a "new question wizard" type of approach for low rep/new users. It does not need to be as structured as you suggest, but I think you are absolutely correct that it would...
View ArticleAnswer by jkdev for Thwart publishing duplicate and low quality questions
I think the "New question wizard" is the right approach. It's the best of both worlds, helping users find answers more quickly while also filtering out junk questions and reducing duplication.I would...
View ArticleAnswer by Tim Post for Thwart publishing duplicate and low quality questions
We have some of this in the works, although we're looking at implementations that are slightly different than what you describe. I'll jump into what we have working right now:A new Triage queue, where...
View ArticleAnswer by Jason Wheeler for Thwart publishing duplicate and low quality...
Main points in bold.I've read several different questions that all address the same thing (low quality questions on SO) and all the ideas that I've read so far are dealing with preventing low quality...
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