Timeline for Why is "infinity minus infinity" a Community Wiki question?
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| Sep 24, 2011 at 21:55 | comment | added | Mike Jones | It's obvious, at least in retrospect, that this question should not have been made CW. However, as they say in chess, even a master makes a blunder now and then. (Or, as they say in the classics, even the great Homer nodded now and then.) | |
| Sep 21, 2011 at 19:38 | comment | added | Bill Dubuque | @Matt Yes, please do post an answer. It is important that those with crucial experience do speak up on such matters. | |
| Sep 21, 2011 at 19:21 | comment | added | Grace Note StaffMod | @Matt Could I convince you to post that viewpoint, and its reasoning, as an answer rather than having it tucked and hidden here in comments? | |
| Sep 21, 2011 at 19:07 | comment | added | Matt E | Dear Willie, With regard to the sentence beginning "With that said", I don't think that this question should have been made CW. It is a reasonable question, with a more-or-less definitive answer. Regards, | |
| Sep 21, 2011 at 17:13 | comment | added | Grace Note StaffMod | @Bill Ah, the square brackets in the parentheses broke it. I've revised the comment, it should work now. | |
| Sep 21, 2011 at 16:19 | comment | added | Bill Dubuque | @Grace The search you did above returns 0 results, not 164 when I run it. | |
| Sep 21, 2011 at 15:51 | comment | added | Willie Wong Mod | @Grace: most are just missing the (soft-question) tag; a few are (big-list) style (reference-request)s. I actually looked at it immediately after you showed me the syntax for the search. I'd rather not bump those questions to the front page if I don't have to. | |
| Sep 21, 2011 at 15:47 | comment | added | Grace Note StaffMod | Just another link - you have 164 questions that have neither tag, but are community wiki and open: math.stackexchange.com/…. It may be wise to review the lot of them to try and figure what should stay, what should go, or what may simply just be missing the requisite tag. | |
| Sep 21, 2011 at 13:03 | comment | added | Grace Note StaffMod | @Grigory A fair disclosure but I'm not personally invested in learning who was flagging as much as the reasoning behind it (which, well, the flag reason Willie posts illustrates that anyway). I take it by being just a comment, you're simply supplementing this answer, or do you have a response of your own to craft? | |
| Sep 21, 2011 at 12:57 | comment | added | Grigory M | (In the interest of full disclosure: I am the user that flagged that post.) | |
| Sep 21, 2011 at 12:55 | comment | added | Willie Wong Mod |
Thanks, I didn't know about the wiki: and closed: keywords in the search.
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| Sep 21, 2011 at 12:44 | comment | added | Grace Note StaffMod | You have 350 open Community Wiki questions, out of 21351 open questions in total. Which is about 1.6% - high-ish but not too condemning. Note that there are 410 open soft questions and 132 open big lists, so they're not all Community Wiki by volume alone. Currently, Mathematics also has the highest SE2.0 question volume, by the way. | |
| Sep 21, 2011 at 12:38 | comment | added | Grace Note StaffMod | I meant "popular" on the scale of "question volume", not "question votes" in that particular quote - what plagues some sites is the sheer volume of these questions, not so much how popular an individual question is. As for the size of Community Wiki, let me crunch some numbers for you. I'll be right back. ♪ | |
| Sep 21, 2011 at 12:35 | history | answered | Willie WongMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |