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Hobbling of users who consistently post low-quality content
There are, unfortunately, a few users on Codidact who relatively consistently make low-quality contributions. These posts often come in bursts and tend to be downvoted fairly quickly, but that doesn't slow them down.
I propose that Codidact should implement some manner in which to slow down such users. They shouldn't be prevented entirely from posting, but there should be limits in place to ensure that their posts don't drown out other content.
I am posting a self-answer with a suggestion for how this can be done, but alternative suggestions (or arguments why this is a bad idea) are certainly welcome!
It sounds like we want to temporarily revoke a person's ability to make lots of posts when recent quality is an issue. …
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The problem has gotten even worse in the four months since this question was asked. I had forgotten about this question …
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This is my suggestion for how to implement hobbling of users who consistently post low-quality content. For a final d …
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This is a proposal for a refinement of Canina's proposal, or any proposal substantially like it, in response to one of c …
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Maybe I am the one who got downvotes (talking about the CD Meta) rather than anyone else. So do I have some idea what a …
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Maybe I am the one who got downvotes (talking about the CD Meta) rather than anyone else. So do I have some idea what a downvote represents? Even sometimes I ignore the person who had downvoted (but not his texts).
In your answer:
First, look at their most recent post of the same type (question, answer, article, ...). If that post has a score >0.5 (that is, is positively received by the community), then allow the new post. (Note that this means that if their most recent post has not yet been voted on at all, the user does not get a free pass.)
Look, everyone has their opinion. And you can't understand a person by his/her past. I may write bad posts yesterday and today I may write good posts.
A person isn't always same. Earlier Stack Overflow was directly blocking people from asking without any warning. But nowadays they are showing a warning message above the question field.
I know what had gone up to me.
Someone said,"another person can never realize what had happened to a person until they are in their place".
There's several reason of downvoting.
- bad English (too hard to read) (this answer might be harder to read also :P (but I don't care of downvote :D))
- no research effort.
- don't have idea of basic things but doing advance things.
- Suggestion isn't good (talking about Meta posts)
Actually, when I was completely new to the community a user (I am not mentioning his name) had told me, "It's very hard to read your answer, and that's why I think other had downvoted". But that doesn't mean the post is bad. My English might be bad, but sometimes I may write good content also. bring me back
Actually, the suggestion may not good to you, but it may be good to some others. But if you judge a person by voting then it won't be good. As I said earlier, the last suggestion was bad, but you can't say future suggestion is bad also. bring me back
Some people may not have idea of everything. If you go to learn something new then there will be a lot of things that you don't know. But before asking a question, they should search on the Internet if there's something relevant. That represents a bad post. And I remark them as bad post either. We should restrict them. My suggestion or communities suggestion
Someone had mentioned in a post that, there's ability in your profile. New users don't get the ability. But since we are small right now, that's why we are giving that ability to every user. I had asked on Discord once, "when we remove the 'participate everywhere' ability. I had shown them that some was writing questions too poorly and their reputation is negative (>50). I got no reply, so I didn't bring that question again".
If anyone think that we should discuss about that then create a new question. I don't have time to do that now.
I care of the question when you say that a single user has written a lot of poor questions. But I don't want someone to be permanently banned. Because if you ban a user then they will go to create another account and he/she will keep doing it. So permanently banning isn't a good idea. My suggestion is to deal with a user's ability.
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