Timeline for Discussion: what should we do about the increasing number of questions?
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| Apr 27, 2013 at 17:23 | comment | added | Kasper | @BrianM.Scott Exactly, I think better fitlering is the most easy solution as it comes to problem of increasing number of question. I do think this is a problem as question get a shorter and shorter attention span. Those book-exercise questions have the luck of getting often more then one answer. Therefore they are likely to get much more views, then many of those more advanced questions. I think some of those questions will be already at page 2 within 20 min, quite sad IMO. | |
| Apr 27, 2013 at 17:14 | comment | added | leo | @BrianM.Scott I was referring to the questions copied exactly as they are in the book. I thought that the whole answer was about this. You're right. | |
| Apr 27, 2013 at 17:10 | comment | added | Brian M. Scott | @leo: Not all ‘book questions’ actually come from specific books. | |
| Apr 27, 2013 at 17:10 | comment | added | Brian M. Scott | There’s often room for argument as to whether something qualifies, but on the whole I think that this would help those whose primary goal is better filtering. | |
| Apr 27, 2013 at 17:08 | comment | added | leo | Not all the questions copied verbatim from book exercises are bad and in fact there are some really interesting. +1 I like your idea, but instead of add a new tag I think it's better to add in somewhere (FAQ or meta), that questions which are from books must indicate the book they come from. For example a header: "This is question xx on page yyy from book Some Book by Some Author". That way, knowing which the book is, you can infer some more things, and if you woul add information to a question to indicate that it come from a book, why not spend a bit more to say from which book? | |
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| Apr 25, 2013 at 16:59 | history | answered | Kasper | CC BY-SA 3.0 |