Timeline for Late answers - a mechanism for getting a fair share of upvotes?
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| Mar 16, 2017 at 16:02 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Dec 10, 2015 at 14:12 | history | edited | Martin Sleziak |
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| Mar 25, 2015 at 10:27 | comment | added | kjetil b halvorsen | This happened to me here: math.stackexchange.com/questions/1143998/… | |
| May 1, 2013 at 20:14 | comment | added | joriki | See also meta.math.stackexchange.com/questions/8496. | |
| Apr 30, 2013 at 14:19 | answer | added | hardmath | timeline score: 9 | |
| Apr 26, 2013 at 14:21 | vote | accept | Jakub Konieczny | ||
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| Apr 26, 2013 at 10:09 | comment | added | user1729 | My 4th a 5th highest-rated answers are on notation. I still find this odd, but I suppose everyone understand a question about unfamiliar notation... | |
| Apr 25, 2013 at 3:14 | answer | added | Glen O | timeline score: 9 | |
| Apr 23, 2013 at 8:25 | comment | added | Gottfried Helms | @Feanor: you're welcome! | |
| Apr 23, 2013 at 8:17 | comment | added | Jakub Konieczny | @GottfriedHelms: I don't think there is anything that could have disgusted me. Now that you mention it, I do feel slightly sorry to have contributed to the trend you describe. However, I think that the idea of SE relies, up to a point, on people pretending that reputation really matters. I think such delusion is part of what keeps people going in the short run (it reminds me of scores in computer games). But maybe that's just my impression. In any case, I haven't been involved enough to observe the trend directly. I absolutely agree caring about reputation should not be taken too far. | |
| Apr 23, 2013 at 8:09 | comment | added | Jakub Konieczny | @J.M. I do agree that writing answers down is non-trivial. My point is: it is often less exciting than thinking about the problem in more vague terms. When I think of a problem, I generally stop at the point where it becomes clear what would follow - after that, I would normally move on to something else. To write things down after I figure out the problem, and to post them publicly, I would need some additional incentive, except for the interest in the problem. | |
| Apr 22, 2013 at 20:25 | comment | added | Gottfried Helms | @Feanor: I hope I did not disgust you. I only feel a swift wind of change in MSE since I'm here. I didn't make a true statistic, but it seems to me, that the number, and possibly even the relative fraction, of meta-questions/problems focusing "reputation" in this or another way has increased. Or if not numerically increased: then possibly intensed. Even problems typical for bureaucracy - as if there were a bureaucracy here in action. Well, whatever - I'm getting slowly slowly tired of that impression and begin to wish a new SE-site where folks with less interest in reputation would crowd in... | |
| Apr 22, 2013 at 15:29 | comment | added | J. M. ain't a mathematician | @Gottfried, in contrast to the tendency elsewhere on the SE network to mindlessly strip out expressions of gratitude, I consider the expressions of thanks as the cherry on top. Anyway, I'm glad my (fashionably?) late answers to some of your questions were useful. | |
| Apr 22, 2013 at 15:29 | answer | added | Douglas S. Stones | timeline score: 13 | |
| Apr 22, 2013 at 15:28 | comment | added | J. M. ain't a mathematician | @Feanor, I don't know, I think writing it down is in fact a way to force you to make what seemed crystal-clear in your head to be actually readable to at least one other person. That takes nontrivial amount of thinking, too. | |
| Apr 22, 2013 at 15:24 | comment | added | Jakub Konieczny | @GottfriedHelms: I tend to think of reputation as (among other things) the indicator from the community that one is doing things right, and that there is some interest in it. So even in a case of an extremely dedicated and enthusiastic users, I would still feel it's a reasonable idea to give this sort of indication. (Also, posting an answer is not just about mathematics, but also the less inspiring task of writing things down). | |
| Apr 22, 2013 at 15:04 | comment | added | Gottfried Helms | @J.M.: ... but some of that eyes were especially thankful for that late answers... :-) Sometimes I dream of a dedicated subset of users which are not so focused on "earning" something (may it be only electronic reputation or something else) but where I can get in resonance with the pure enthusiasm on interesting mathematical problems. Hmm. Perhaps that users should insert a "sign" in their user-name, like - hmm, what would be a good example... | |
| Apr 22, 2013 at 12:33 | comment | added | J. M. ain't a mathematician | "I am afraid that some users may be discouraged from posting late answers." - at least in my case, the fact that the problem took me more than a minute of thought was sufficient encouragement to keep working at it. Since my interests tend to not overlap very much with the interests of many users here (e.g. special functions), I've just gotten used to my answers, most especially late ones, to just not get that many eyes on them. | |
| Apr 22, 2013 at 11:53 | history | asked | Jakub Konieczny | CC BY-SA 3.0 |