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Comments on How can we make Codidact more friendly for askers?

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How can we make Codidact more friendly for askers?

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Most of the sites are struggling to get questions and while it seems to me at least that more effort has been put into optimizing for the answerers than for the askers.

To put it another way, there are lots and lots of sites on the internet where one could get their question answered, why should they ask it here?

Recently for me, it has not so much been that I don't have questions but more that the cost of writing questions is has not been worth the benefit.

What can we do to encourage people to ask questions here?

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This is very half-baked and just brainstorming at the moment, but it'd be good if askers received some sort of feedback that people were working on responding to them. Right now, some questions sit at zero answers for some time, and it can be hard to know if it's because the question is really hard, or because somebody is mullin over and maybe doing some research in their spare time but haven't put together a real "answer" yet, or if it's that there are so few answerers in a community that they're not likely to ever see a response. Upvotes mitigate this somewhat, but I know I upvote questions where "This is interesting and well-written and I'd like to see a response too" but I don't plan on answering myself.

Some of this may not be technological features that are needed, but expectations around what's needed to start posting an answer, if pointers to a few resources (some kind of "partial answer") is acceptable to people, or if just there should be an expectation of certain comments of "This is really interesting and I'm trying to dig into this in my spare time to try to help but don't know if I'll get to writing up an answer anytime soon" is something that should be encouraged? And maybe some community efforts to try to find questions that are sitting around unanswered for too long (which the cross-community "ads" may be the start of but there might be more we can do)?

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ArtOfCode‭ wrote almost 4 years ago

We could surface the number of drafts currently being written in response to a question... I think. Would that be useful?

Peter Cooper Jr.‭ wrote almost 4 years ago

@ArtOfCode Hmm, maybe. In terms of technical changes I was thinking more of an "I'm working on an answer" button of some sort, which might handle cases where I'm doing research but haven't yet started formulating an answer. But having a standard just be starting a draft just might be good enough. I'd be afraid that at this point it might just discourage people more since they'd know that nobody was working on it, though. :) Do you have any statistics on how often drafts turn into real posts?

Alexei‭ wrote almost 4 years ago

One quick way for potential answerers to indicate this is via comments. I saw this being used on Politics.SE (more frequently for questions in danger of being closed that for "normal" questions, but still...).