IMHO stackoverflow feels like a spamming of dumb questions since ages. I somehow wonder if people answer them at all. I personally think the root of the problem is a screwed reputation system.
Basically, just asking lots of questions earns lots of reputation, especially if they are basic. On the other hand, answers are less rewarding, and especially more so if it's a deep technical and difficult topic.
In other words, reputation does not represent expertise and favors basic questions flooding. It was irritating back then, and still is.
I think if "posting" questions would cost you reputation, even minimally, and earn nothing, the questions would both flood less and increase in quality. It would also be much more encouraging to answer and reputation would be meaningful again.
I don't get the feeling that bad questions are there to obtain reputation, but I might be wrong.
Setting a reputation cost to questions is an interesting approach and I wonder if they've ever considered... although I would understand how they want to avoid that measure in a Q&A site. I feel that in some tags that would be harmful (like very new or very niche technologies) but very useful in others (massively used languages and tools like javascript and git, for example).
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IMHO stackoverflow feels like a spamming of dumb questions since ages. I somehow wonder if people answer them at all. I personally think the root of the problem is a screwed reputation system.
Basically, just asking lots of questions earns lots of reputation, especially if they are basic. On the other hand, answers are less rewarding, and especially more so if it's a deep technical and difficult topic.
In other words, reputation does not represent expertise and favors basic questions flooding. It was irritating back then, and still is.
I think if "posting" questions would cost you reputation, even minimally, and earn nothing, the questions would both flood less and increase in quality. It would also be much more encouraging to answer and reputation would be meaningful again.
I don't get the feeling that bad questions are there to obtain reputation, but I might be wrong.
Setting a reputation cost to questions is an interesting approach and I wonder if they've ever considered... although I would understand how they want to avoid that measure in a Q&A site. I feel that in some tags that would be harmful (like very new or very niche technologies) but very useful in others (massively used languages and tools like javascript and git, for example).
Thanks for your comment, Arnaud!