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by mancerayder
3676 days ago
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Up the barrier to entry to being able to be an off-topic/duplicate question Nazi. Sometimes those low-lying fruit are too tempting for some of the more OCD types not to pick. Don't get me wrong, we need to police and remove / flag off topics and dups. But sometimes the flaggers don't understand what they're flagging and nuances get lost. Make it harder for people to do what can amount to useful information being lost, which in my opinion is a costlier risk than a duplicate question or whatnot. |
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My idea on this same problem is to make downvoting harder on questions by brand new users.
1. Can't downvote to less than 0 if the question is asked by a user with less than 20 rep
2. Someone with enough rep can adopt the question, which temporarily makes it only possible to be edited by them and the questioner -- the purpose is to improve the question. The adopter cannot answer the question (perhaps only with a wiki answer -- so they can't adopt to get rep)
3. Downvotes past -1 should cost the downvoter a LOT more rep to stop pile-ons.
There are many times where I think the best course of action for a question is to just help the questioner and close the question as being off-topic. I am fine not getting rep if I do it -- I just hate the way new users are treated -- I am not in SO to help build a database of useful questions -- I am more interested in helping newbies.