Timeline for Design-Independent Graduation is on for early September!
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| Aug 20, 2015 at 22:12 | comment | added | M.A.R. | Note that only 5-10 people with CV privileges were active at the time of chem.SE's graduation. | |
| Aug 20, 2015 at 19:35 | history | edited | PearsonArtPhoto | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 20, 2015 at 18:25 | history | edited | PearsonArtPhoto | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 20, 2015 at 17:13 | comment | added | PearsonArtPhoto | @DeerHunter: Fair enough. | |
| Aug 20, 2015 at 17:11 | comment | added | Deer Hunter | @PearsonArtPhoto - the number of high-rep users goes up, but the number of those who actively participate drops due to burnout. | |
| Aug 20, 2015 at 15:13 | comment | added | PearsonArtPhoto | @Ana: I remember the early days of Photography, when the very first question was closed after it launched without moderator intervention, which probably happened 3-4 months after the launch. I agree that situation should be avoided. Hence my last sentence, questioning if such sites should even launch. | |
| Aug 20, 2015 at 15:12 | comment | added | PearsonArtPhoto | @Catija: I understand that there is variation, but the number of high reputation users rarely goes down, it usually goes up. | |
| Aug 20, 2015 at 15:10 | comment | added | Ana | (cont.) How do we strike the right balance and ensure that the site always has enough committed high rep users but doesn't have to wait at all past that point? I don't know yet. The site maintenance piece also isn't the only consideration in moving mechanisms around. But again, we're looking for this partial forward progress to give us more ability to see what's actually going on. | |
| Aug 20, 2015 at 15:05 | comment | added | Ana | @Catija In our internal debates this was indeed one of the secondary concerns which surfaced. In the early days we sometimes graduated sites which didn't have enough high rep users and all maintenance tasks fell on mods, and it wasn't pretty. The design backlog, while discouraging for communities, had an odd positive side effect of ensuring that a site continued to collect enough high rep users, preventing us from putting sites in the same position. | |
| Aug 20, 2015 at 15:01 | comment | added | Ana | Your reasoning is pretty solid. Again, reiterating what both Abby and I have said respectively, this is what we could do right now even if it's not complete or perfect. Thanks for giving us that much more evidence that we need to keep tweaking and improving, and not just let this most recent change become to the de facto way we do things from now until 6 - 8 years in the future. | |
| Aug 20, 2015 at 15:01 | comment | added | Catija | The problem that I see is that, should they opt to change the "graduation" structure so that a site becomes a full site at 90 days, this will not be the case. Right now we have a backlog of a dozen or more sites that have been ready to "graduate" for a year or more. Of course these sites have plenty of high-rep users. But, the average site wouldn't be ready for higher rep requirements at 90 days. | |
| Aug 20, 2015 at 14:55 | history | answered | PearsonArtPhoto | CC BY-SA 3.0 |