Timeline for Standard comments for flags/downvotes
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| May 11, 2011 at 14:42 | comment | added | Nick T | The choices are to either hammer out a comment that essentially says "you fail at this site", or spend a much longer amount of time looking for the resources we have on the site already that may be of use be they the FAQ or other, more general questions. I'm sick of those "personalized" close notes for game recs that don't even bother to point users towards what we already have | |
| Mar 22, 2011 at 20:37 | comment | added | Grace Note StaffMod | I'm not opposed to compiling short explanations of our main policies, which can be used as a basic reference when people want to just make a quick double-check on what our policies are. But I'm still strongly opposed to a standardized comment system. Especially a gimmicky one. | |
| Mar 22, 2011 at 20:29 | comment | added | Grace Note StaffMod | Part of the existence of policies, and one of the goals of the FAQ rewrite, is to remove the need to dig through Meta for an explanation. Not everyone lived through those debates, and a good FAQ prevents people from needing to ever have to. I prefer comments with closures all the time, I've stressed it since public beta period even before the debates erupted. There's no trade secrets to providing helpful comments, though. If you're going to be walking the user through the reasons why their post got closed, you may as well start off that way. | |
| Mar 22, 2011 at 20:22 | comment | added | Brant | I'm the one that originally proposed this in chat earlier today. My motivation was to encourage more people to leave helpful comments on low-quality or off-topic questions by giving them a clear description of common problems that questions have. I've seen several users doing this already, and thought that it would be a good idea to collaborate. I agree that reading off a script is not at all desirable, but it's a step friendlier than a quick closure with no explanation. Not everyone lived through the game-rec debates of '010, and saying "Look on meta for an explanation" isn't one. | |
| Mar 22, 2011 at 20:13 | history | answered | Grace NoteStaffMod | CC BY-SA 2.5 |