Timeline for Proposed "soft-landing" for "what camera" questions.
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| Jun 4, 2011 at 0:19 | comment | added | rfusca | @jrista - "form" may not be the right term, but just a list of common questions that help us to help you on some common questions. | |
| Jun 3, 2011 at 19:28 | history | edited | rfusca | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 3, 2011 at 18:38 | comment | added | jrista Mod | +1 for the anti-stackexchange bit. Not really sure I agree about having a form though...it just doesn't really matter in the long run how much meta-information we have for people. | |
| Jun 3, 2011 at 13:06 | comment | added | D. Lambert | I think rather than looking at this as "anti-stack exchange", it might make more sense to look at it as a way to guide people into a more stack-exchange way of forming questions. | |
| Jun 2, 2011 at 20:39 | comment | added | Jay Lance Photography | ...and I think that was essentially what @frusca was saying as well, if I'm not mistaken... | |
| Jun 2, 2011 at 20:38 | comment | added | Jay Lance Photography | @mattdm: Yeah, I think we're on the same page, but just to be clear in no way am I advocating having a form that everyone is required to fill out in order to get a question answered. This would be more a list (What's your price range? Do you favor any particular brand? What is your experience level? Etc.) that we could refer a poster who has posed a vague question to. Essentially a list which would include the questions we generally are asking now in the comments... Posters can choose to use the list to update their question with additional detail to help us help them... | |
| Jun 2, 2011 at 20:20 | comment | added | mattdm | So, I think this suggestion addresses the "not a real question" issue in meta.photo.stackexchange.com/questions/1037/…, but not the other ones. | |
| Jun 2, 2011 at 20:00 | comment | added | rfusca | @mattdm - The choice of the word "form" was just used to indicate that there exists a list of questions that are helpful to answer. A meta post would be appropriate. | |
| Jun 2, 2011 at 19:42 | comment | added | mattdm | @Jay — I was responding to the idea of having a form for new posts. I think that's different from what you are suggesting. But maybe I'm misunderstanding. | |
| Jun 2, 2011 at 19:23 | comment | added | Jay Lance Photography | @mattdm: Current "System": OP asks a vague shopping question and get a flurry of comments asking them to clarify and narrow their question. @rfusca's "System": OP asks a vague shopping question and is referred to a post with questions we'd like them to answer so they can clarify and narrow their question. How is that so radically different than what we're doing now that it would require "a separate site" or "wouldn't work here"? | |
| Jun 2, 2011 at 18:59 | comment | added | mattdm | To me, a form-based approach is very different from Stack Exchange, and at least suggests a separate site (see meta.photo.stackexchange.com/questions/529/…). For what it'a worth, I actually wrote such a forum for a camera-recommendation forum (see dcresource.com/forums/… ). I just don't think it'd work here. | |
| Jun 2, 2011 at 18:57 | comment | added | rfusca | Right, thats what I was thinking. :) | |
| Jun 2, 2011 at 18:43 | comment | added | Jay Lance Photography | I could see us having a meta question with several answers, "Questions we ask for a vague camera purchase query," "Questions we ask for a vague lens purchase query," "Questions we ask for a vague studio lighting purchase query," etc... | |
| Jun 2, 2011 at 18:41 | comment | added | Jay Lance Photography | Bonus: we'd be able to relatively quickly determine that the OP wasn't serious about getting an answer from us (because they posted the question and then never returned to respond to the request for more information) and we could close it out without worrying about whether we're 'scaring someone away' by being unnecessarily quick to close the question... | |
| Jun 2, 2011 at 18:41 | comment | added | Jay Lance Photography | I'll have to give @mattdm's proposal more thought, but my instinct is that a meta post with "the series of questions we ask when we're given a super-vague question to help us narrow things down to provide a helpful answer" is the right direction to go... Rather than a noob getting a flurry of comments, ranging in tone from helpful and welcoming, to hostile and offputting, they could simply be referred to a "Details to Include in Your Question to Help Us Help You" post... Upon updating their question we'd be in a much better position to help them... | |
| Jun 2, 2011 at 17:56 | history | answered | rfusca | CC BY-SA 3.0 |