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How can we make Codidact more friendly for askers?
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?
Chicken, meet egg. In many cases, the askers are much less expert than the answerers. The experts are the ones creati …
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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 …
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Elaborating on the thoughts of @PeterCooperJr., it might be sensible to provide some meta statistics on each site on th …
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A lot of Codidact's distinctives, as Manasseh notes in comments on another answer, are about how the Codidact team and t …
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Don't shoot the messenger. What about assimilating Codidact's website design — just this, nothing else, definitely not t …
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I'll try not to repeat what's already written here. 1. Codidact just feels too cluttered compared to S.E. — see http …
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Elaborating on the thoughts of @PeterCooperJr., it might be sensible to provide some meta statistics on each site on the main and / or "Ask Question" page.
For example, it might be viable to display the usual average response time to a given question. Maybe be even more detailed with how long it takes until it's answered by any person and how long it takes until it's answered by a domain expert. Another interesting statistics might be how many answers are to be expected. Some questions / topics don't have objective correct answers but a lot of correct subjective ones (think about cutting vegetables during cooking - many ways and nearly all of them are feasible in a way).
More statistics could be:
- Average online users
- Users online in the last 24 hours / 3 days / 7 days
- General ratio of questions asked and answers provided
- Number of domain experts
- Number of non-domain experts but high-rep users (if it's to be distinguished somehow)
- Time until the first interaction happens (casting votes, editing, answering etc.)
- Total number of questions (factually already exists on the top of each site)
- Total number of answers
All these numbers might encourage someone to ask a question here (numbers displaying a highly active community), however, they might also discourage someone to ask a question (numbers displaying an inactive community).
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