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I suggest we show questions in the list differently depending on their rating. Good questions are show as they are now. Poorly received questions are shown visually de-emphasized, like smaller te...
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#1: Initial revision
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Olin Lathrop
·
2021-12-07T14:42:58Z (almost 3 years ago)
I suggest we show questions in the list differently depending on their rating. Good questions are show as they are now. Poorly received questions are shown visually de-emphasized, like smaller text, less detail, and partially grayed out. Since it takes some time for questions to be rated by votes, new questions would also be shown differently. These might be highlighted somehow, like with a green background. It emphasizes where regular users should spend time. Perhaps the vote totals shouldn't be shown in the list at all for new questions. New questions would be considered rated after some time, or after some minimum number of votes accumulate. The various parameters should be settable per site, particularly for what qualifies as new. I have looked around several sites, and it appears that a positive score (+1 or more) is a good indicator for whether a question is "good" or not. No automated system is perfect, but this simple criterion works surprisingly well across the sites I have looked at. For not-logged-in users, we should probably show only the new and good questions.