Timeline for What does Code Golf's progress look like right now?
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| Mar 16, 2017 at 15:46 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Mar 16, 2017 at 15:46 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Mar 16, 2017 at 15:46 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| May 19, 2014 at 17:28 | answer | added | HostileFork says dont trust SE | timeline score: 14 | |
| Apr 23, 2014 at 13:27 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
Fixup of bad MSO links to MSE links migration
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| Apr 23, 2014 at 9:29 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Mar 21, 2014 at 12:13 | comment | added | Grace Note StaffMod | @Doorknob Web Apps isn't the best thing to measure against since we graduated that one back when it was flat 90 days -> graduation. But putting that aside - stats aren't everything. Even the community here has underlying concerns about if graduation is a good idea right now. I'd already been on the "Let's wait and see a bit more" when I posted this barely two weeks ago - so let's wait and see a bit more. | |
| Mar 20, 2014 at 23:40 | comment | added | Doorknob | Oh, and we even both have better weekly and monthly rep than Super User, one of the most active SE sites! Honestly I see no reason why we haven't graduated already. | |
| Mar 20, 2014 at 23:33 | comment | added | Doorknob | Sorry to bother you yet again, but I've been thinking: seriously, why hasn't Code Golf (and Code Review by extention) graduated yet? We have no major problems, and we do have much better stats than some sites like WebApps when it graduated. (I mean really, they only had 3 closers and their highest repped user had 5011.) | |
| Mar 7, 2014 at 23:43 | answer | added | Jonathan Van Matre | timeline score: 7 | |
| Mar 7, 2014 at 16:40 | comment | added | user10766 | @PeterTaylor I have seen multiple sites be closed due to lack of fulfilling the requirements on Area 51. I was just worried it would get closed. It appears that is not the case. | |
| Mar 7, 2014 at 11:53 | comment | added | Grace Note StaffMod | We have been looking at the concept of the "perpetual beta" for a number of sites, and while the status of it hasn't quite been set, I'm pretty confident that Code Golf isn't close to the chopping block. | |
| Mar 7, 2014 at 10:02 | comment | added | Peter Taylor | @hosch250, can you cite any source to back up "If we don't graduate, we will probably get closed"? I've never expected PCG to leave beta, but it seems to serve its purpose of keeping code-golf off SO without graduating. | |
| Mar 7, 2014 at 7:42 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackCodeGolf/status/441841264045342721 | ||
| Mar 7, 2014 at 3:50 | comment | added | user10766 | If we don't graduate, we will probably get closed. Also, once we graduate, people will probably start being stricter with their upvotes. If it gets reopened, then vote to reclose it again so people see it in the CV queue. I personally have seen questionable questions be opened and closed several times within a few days. | |
| Mar 7, 2014 at 1:41 | comment | added | Grace Note StaffMod | I'm getting a lot more opposition to this from the community than I expected - I knew my analysis might be missing a couple key screws, but not this badly. I could basically retract the degree of what I've said about progress - there's no point in celebration if its stats are only to the destruction of the site's quality. | |
| Mar 6, 2014 at 23:54 | comment | added | Peter Taylor | @Geobits, it was unfortunate that the large increase in traffic coincided with a time when, due to the holiday, there were fewer people around to moderate. | |
| Mar 6, 2014 at 23:07 | comment | added | Geobits | @Gareth That was actually my reaction when I saw that thread, too. If anything, the site needs more downvoting, but then you see things like "upvoted to counter unfair downvote", and you wonder why you bother. The problem with perpetual beta, though, is that it keeps the VTC privilege at 500, where anyone can get it after basically no time. | |
| Mar 6, 2014 at 23:05 | comment | added | Gareth | @Geobits And to make matters worse, we've now got everyone upvoting anything and everything in some misguided attempt to boost our chances of graduation. I think that one of the best things that Grace Note and the team could do for us is to guarantee that we will never graduate. Leave us in perpetual beta so that people stop artificially inflating each other's reputation to meet some imaginary targets. | |
| Mar 6, 2014 at 23:02 | comment | added | Gareth | @Geobits We often can't close the rubbish questions because a lot of the 'more traffic' has gained enough reputation off the back of answers to rubbish no-intelligence-necessary questions to reopen them straight away. That's the problem. Please, if you see questions that should be closed, vote to close them. If you're unlucky you may get to see what I mean. | |
| Mar 6, 2014 at 22:46 | comment | added | Geobits | FWIW, I see at least a couple posts on the front page right now that should probably(IMO) be closed, yet have zero close votes. I've held back on closing so far, since I'm new here and still trying to get a feel for the community. So far it seems to me that the community just doesn't moderate as much as it could, yet everyone on meta seems to have a gripe about the post quality. | |
| Mar 6, 2014 at 22:44 | comment | added | Geobits | @Gareth That's just due to more traffic, though, which is generally a good thing. Laying the blame on a single tag/post/incident seems naive, and I think any large increase in traffic is going to cause more low-quality posts, simply because you get a lot of new people who aren't familiar with the rules. I like the way Shog9 put it when people complained about "Hot" traffic on MSO: "You can work to fix that - as painful as that process is - or you can bury your head in the sand and blame it on all of those stupid people from elsewhere." | |
| Mar 6, 2014 at 22:36 | comment | added | Gareth | @Geobits No they're not new, they're just a lot more common since December. We do vote to close, but there are a number of users who instantly vote to reopen anything just to be contrarians. These are probably the people who earned lots of rep posting answers like this or this. | |
| Mar 6, 2014 at 19:02 | comment | added | Geobits | @Gareth Are rehashes of trivial tasks really a new thing around here? Even in the [code-golf] tag, there are a bunch of quine/hello-world types, and I can't imagine they're all really different enough to warrant separate questions. The main difference I see is that now they come in faster due to high traffic, but rehashes seem to be the inherent nature of a "post a puzzle" site. Just vote to close them as dupes, just as we do on SO when someone posts the millionth "Why don't these strings equal each other?" question. | |
| Mar 6, 2014 at 17:47 | comment | added | Gareth | Good work? Surely you joke? You don't seem to realise that the quality of this site has plummeted since the travesty that is [code-trolling] was unleashed. There are now just as many good questions as there were previously; the difference is that they get hidden amongst the extra trash - the seemingly endless rehashes of 'Hello, World!', quines, and 'print x without using y'. It makes me despair every time I visit. | |
| Mar 6, 2014 at 16:40 | answer | added | Peter Taylor | timeline score: 17 | |
| Mar 6, 2014 at 16:11 | comment | added | Grace Note StaffMod | Those were concerns in the past - not so much now (though obviously we don't want to just forget and laze on those matters as if it's senior year). For now, the main thing to do is keep up the good work. | |
| Mar 6, 2014 at 16:07 | comment | added | Doorknob | Yay, thank you for this :-D now I don't have to pester you on posts and in chat! :-P So anyway, what could we be doing better? I see your two major concerns (voting and new challenges) and also that we're working on fixing them; should we just keep it up? Or is there anything else we should do? | |
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