Timeline for Can Writers Graduate? Correlation between voting and progressing?
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| Jan 17, 2017 at 0:50 | comment | added | Monica Cellio | @MarkBaker (and others): followup: meta.writers.stackexchange.com/q/1212/1993 | |
| Jan 16, 2017 at 13:48 | comment | added | Pᴀᴜʟsᴛᴇʀ2 | @MarkBaker - Fair enough. | |
| Jan 16, 2017 at 13:27 | comment | added | user16226 | @Pᴀᴜʟsᴛᴇʀ2, I think there is more to doing well than meeting statistical categories for participation, but what I was really saying is that voting is not the only thing that is affecting our QPD. As Standback points out, our voting stats are on par with many successful sites. But it is obvious that we attract only a small sliver of our intended subject matter. We are fulfilling maybe 5% or our mandate. Fantasy fiction is a tiny part of the market but dominates here. That is a problem. | |
| Jan 16, 2017 at 2:28 | comment | added | Pᴀᴜʟsᴛᴇʀ2 | @MarkBaker - It's doing "everything else right" in the sense towards graduation. It's nailing the key areas which it needs for graduation except QPD. Writers does very well in all other areas. | |
| Jan 16, 2017 at 2:02 | comment | added | user16226 | @Pᴀᴜʟsᴛᴇʀ2, writers is very clearly not doing everything else right because the participation by professional writers is very low and the subject of the vast majority of the questions is fantasy fiction, a tiny sliver of the total writing market. It is as if SO were dominated by amateur Visual Basic programmers. Frivolous voting is not going to bring in a wider range of questions or the people to answer them. The site needs to be more serious, not less. I think we need to talk about ways to broaden the appeal and get more professionals on here. | |
| Jan 15, 2017 at 22:19 | comment | added | Lauren-Clear-Monica-Ipsum | I haz those steenken badges. :) I even have Electorate! | |
| Jan 14, 2017 at 20:07 | comment | added | Standback | Right, but you're assuming we have things to vote on that we currently aren't. Voting on stuff we don't actually want to vote on is activity, but it isn't constructive activity. | |
| Jan 14, 2017 at 19:58 | comment | added | Pᴀᴜʟsᴛᴇʀ2 | Thanks for this answer. I appreciate you reading my diatribe. I'll restate what I've stated in a chat somewhere, "Activity breeds activity". Voting is activity. If others are excited about what they find here and how they are received, they will tend to stick around and ask more questions. Writers needs more questions (and good questions). Voting is the only option to get more (because Writers is doing everything else right!). Again, I'm not trying to come in and change the world. I'm only hoping to help get Writers more of what it needs to become what it deserves to be. | |
| Jan 14, 2017 at 19:41 | history | answered | Standback | CC BY-SA 3.0 |