Timeline for Help us identify new roles for community members
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| Dec 8, 2022 at 17:52 | comment | added | pilchard | What is really needed in my opinion is better day to day means and incentives for raising the standard of questions across the board, rather than promoting the 1 in 500 question that is excellent. There is currently no incentive to close as duplicate or to edit questions for formatting or accuracy, while the asker, even of poorly researched questions, gets rep for a question, and answers get rep even if they are less thorough than the older duplicates answers that already exist. | |
| Dec 3, 2022 at 12:07 | comment | added | Jyrki_Shog9Supporter | I'm sure on some sites evolving technology changes the relative pecking order of answers. I don't see math being such a site, though. In Math answers have a very long shelf-life. Half a century, minimum. I mean, questions on our highest volume tags are about math developed in 1800s :-) | |
| Dec 2, 2022 at 18:34 | comment | added | Braiam | @mickmackusa there must be topic curators and tag curators. One that is generalist about every topic on the site (ie. is this programming), and tag curators. | |
| Dec 1, 2022 at 11:33 | comment | added | Ne Mo | This could work well with my suggestion - these curators could pick a part of the world which is neglected on the stack, and use the new tools to spotlight questions about it and reward those users. meta.stackexchange.com/q/384169/259135 | |
| Nov 30, 2022 at 22:39 | comment | added | FZs | Curators (or whatever we want to call them) could also be tied to specific tags that they have the most knowledge in (at least on bigger sites). That could reduce the possibilities to abuse this (but would still need supervision of course). It could also give a better overview for the community of which tags have enough/need more expert attention. | |
| Nov 30, 2022 at 22:31 | comment | added | FZs | They could also get powers for giving attention to a specific answer, rather than an entire question. Like pinning a top answer for a question or something like that. That could help with what @Mentalist pointed out, for example on SO the highest-voted answer is often the oldest and because of that, outdated. Trending sort does improve on that, but having a field expert manually pick the best answer would take that to another level. | |
| Nov 30, 2022 at 18:27 | comment | added | Alexander Gruber | I think the reason Pearl Dive hasn't taken off is mostly just attention. It's a small chat on a site where many users don't use chat. Moreover, it's not visible from the front page, which is something that could change with official support. Eyes are everything for this idea. | |
| Nov 30, 2022 at 12:16 | comment | added | Jyrki_Shog9Supporter | (cont'd) More importantly, with only 2-3 regular sponsors the chat room lacks continuity. One of us gets tied up with real life, and the activity drops. | |
| Nov 30, 2022 at 12:14 | comment | added | Jyrki_Shog9Supporter | @starball I toyed with an unofficial version named the Pearl Dive. The description, the chat room. Can't say it would be a success. The initial support in our meta thread was ok, but in practice very few users have participated (either as sponsors or as promoters bringing pearls to the sponsors notice). Lately it has started looking like my personal place to advertise the bounties I hand out to the questions I find deserving. A monologue becomes monotonous after a while :-) | |
| Nov 30, 2022 at 11:08 | comment | added | Mentalist | Part of what's needed with curation is the updating of info as it pertains to evolving technologies. New versions of software and programming languages get released. Specs get updated. Some questions/answers are highly ranked yet no longer as relevant as they once were. Sometimes there will be screenshots that bear little resemblance to current software versions. Some of this can't be helped, as we can't redo everything... but as it stands there's little incentive to keep existing good content at a high standard. I'm not sure the role of "Curator" is the answer, but since we're on the subject. | |
| Nov 29, 2022 at 17:29 | comment | added | Alexander Gruber | @starball Sure, what they're called doesn't really matter to me. We were also considering "Promoters" and "Sponsors" while developing the idea. The project's working name was "Rainmakers." | |
| Nov 29, 2022 at 8:01 | history | edited | Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 29, 2022 at 4:11 | comment | added | starball | "curator" seems to mean different things to different people. I've gotten comments from someone who used it only to mean post editors, but my interpretation is the more general one as descibed in catija's answer to a question on what it means here. Would you consider using a term that more directly describes what you are talking about? Perhaps- "SME bounty awarders"? | |
| Nov 28, 2022 at 23:11 | history | edited | Alexander Gruber | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 28, 2022 at 22:51 | comment | added | Alexander Gruber | @mickmackusa Not if properly supervised! I think there are some simple rules we can put on it to prevent that from happening. We've managed to avoid it in the unofficial version so far. | |
| Nov 28, 2022 at 22:49 | comment | added | mickmackusa | Is this to be a sanctioned voting ring? If not, I am in favor of having a panel of SMEs who are able to take high level actions with 100% transparency. Cooperative, democratic, topic-scoped curation | |
| Nov 28, 2022 at 22:47 | history | answered | Alexander Gruber | CC BY-SA 4.0 |