Timeline for We need to take a look at list questions
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| Apr 4, 2013 at 21:16 | comment | added | Slytherincess | It's hard to swallow the general acceptance of C&Ping swaths of Wikipedia/Wiki material as thoughtful, meaningful answers -- no, you are not alone in the belief that we should expect so much better than that. For many many months I would put a request in my questions for no Wikipedia/Wiki answers; I'm sure I got a lot of downvotes for that. A lot. And when I finally caught the clue that -- seemingly -- more people here would defend the right to mediocrity over the goal of excellence, the purpose of the site became fairly irrelevant to me. I look at the site much differently now. | |
| Apr 4, 2013 at 1:53 | comment | added | Beofett | Oh, I agree that we need to talk about this, and I am glad you asked this question. On the "are there any" subset, I am fond of PearsonArtPhoto's answer from a previous discussion, although I don't believe the discussion drew enough attention to qualify as a consensus. Regarding copy/paste answers, if they are from a variety of sources, and provide appropriate citations, I consider it an improvement over what already exists, but I do prefer that an overview be custom written for the answer, with citations to acknowledge sources. | |
| Apr 4, 2013 at 1:44 | comment | added | sarge_smith | @beofett Honestly, the only ones that I think can be objectively discarded are "the does this exist/give-me-one-example" subset. I never really intended this question to fully solve the problem, I just feel like it's something we really needed to talk about. Just like we should be talking about how many user deletions we have. Honestly, it wasn't on my radar when I started this, but now I think the number one bad thing is the fact that list questions are almost always answered with the ctrl-C, ctrl-V key. I think our community is better than that, although I appear in the minority. | |
| Apr 3, 2013 at 19:16 | comment | added | Beofett | Having gone through your examples, and read your conclusion, I'm left with a big question: how, exactly, do we identify new questions as falling into your subset that should be removed (i.e. "the subset that the community is already mostly ignoring")? What, exactly, do you mean by mostly ignoring? I'm assuming the number of views plays into it, since that's the only metric you consistently included, but that seems flawed since the subject will influence views more than the wording of the title (i.e. bad Star Wars Q's will draw more views than good Q's about Sister of the Dead) | |
| Apr 3, 2013 at 18:58 | comment | added | Beofett | Regarding your first reason why you think they're bad, I listed several limited list questions that do not fall into the category of "idle curiosity": the questions about Stargate and X-Files 'arc' episodes, LotR poetry, and Superman comics in particular, but really (arguably) all of the questions I listed in my answer, (good, bad, and in between), with the sole exception of the Wesley Crusher romance question. | |
| Apr 3, 2013 at 16:02 | history | answered | sarge_smith | CC BY-SA 3.0 |