I’m not too concerned about the bad answer closure - as long as the person voting proves they can pick the right one. I personally don’t go off of points, but implied experience and who posted it. If person A gets 5 points with a hackjob answer, that’s not something I would accept because it stinks of an amateur hour job at best. Usually those get chosen because people go off of points and what worked for them (not knowing points are NOT relative compared to experience), rather then an overall look. Likewise if you post a more solid answer then the next person who came up with a one line solution, you get it with me. This is why I usually pick between @mayer, @oldturkey03 and @danj a lot more often then others - I trust their answers more then most people’s nearly every time although I do see good answers from others from time to time, it’s not all that common.
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The problem with points based acceptance is that you run into an issue where end users want an easy solution rather then a proper answer. The reason this is bad because a good answer is often given fewer votes then a well thought out one that’s either all there or revisable because it takes less time for someone to come up with a hackjob answer and for the OP to read said thing and not realize it’s terrible.
You are absolutely right about the issue of bad answers getting accepted. It’s one of the reasons I generally don’t go into Answers as often - I’m getting tired of the accept rate and amateur hour acceptance problem.
The easiest way to clear that up is to limit closure voting to people with ~500-1k reputation points. If someone can attain that, then it’s easier to trust their judgement.
As far as the accept rate, I’ve just accepted that it’s likely never going to improve and it will probably take 6 months to get it closed.
I’m not too concerned about the bad answer closure - as long as the person voting proves they can pick the right one. I personally don’t go off of points, but implied experience and who posted it. If person A gets 5 points with a hackjob answer, that’s not something I would accept because it stinks of an amateur hour job at best. Usually those get chosen because people go off of points and what worked for them (not knowing points are NOT relative compared to experience), rather then an overall look. Likewise if you post a more solid answer then the next person who came up with a one line solution, you get it with me.
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I’m not too concerned about the bad answer closure - as long as the person voting proves they can pick the right one. I personally don’t go off of points, but implied experience and who posted it. If person A gets 5 points with a hackjob answer, that’s not something I would accept because it stinks of an amateur hour job at best. Usually those get chosen because people go off of points and what worked for them (not knowing points are NOT relative compared to experience), rather then an overall look. Likewise if you post a more solid answer then the next person who came up with a one line solution, you get it with me. This is why I usually pick between @mayer, @oldturkey03 and @danj a lot more often then others - I trust their answers more then most people’s nearly every time although I do see good answers from others from time to time, it’s not all that common.
You are absolutely right about the issue of bad answers getting accepted. It’s one of the reasons I generally don’t go into Answers as often - I’m getting tired of the accept rate and amateur hour acceptance problem.
The easiest way to clear that up is to limit closure voting to people with ~500-1k reputation points. If someone can attain that, then it’s easier to trust their judgement.
As far as the accept rate, I’ve just accepted that it’s likely never going to improve and it will probably take 6 months to get it closed.
I’m not too concerned about the bad answer closure - as long as the person voting proves they can pick the right one. I personally don’t go off of points, but implied experience and who posted it. If person A gets 5 points with a hackjob answer, that’s not something I would accept because it stinks of an amateur hour job at best. Usually those get chosen because people go off of points and what worked for them (not knowing points are NOT relative compared to experience), rather then an overall look. Likewise if you post a more solid answer then the next person who came up with a one line solution, you get it with me.
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You are absolutely right about the issue of bad answers getting accepted. It’s one of the reasons I generally don’t go into Answers as often - I’m getting tired of the accept rate and amateur hour acceptance problem.
The easiest way to clear that up is to limit closure voting to people with ~500-1k reputation points. If someone can attain that, then it’s easier to trust their judgement.
As far as the accept rate, I’ve just accepted that it’s likely never going to improve and it will probably take 6 months to get it closed.
I’m not too concerned about the bad answer closure - as long as the person voting proves they can pick the right one. I personally don’t go off of points, but implied experience and who posted it. If person A gets 5 points with a hackjob answer, that’s not something I would accept because it stinks of an amateur hour job at best. Usually those get chosen because people goo off of points and what worked for them, rather then an overall look. Likewise if you post a more solid answer then the next person, you get it with me.
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I’m not too concerned about the bad answer closure - as long as the person voting proves they can pick the right one. I personally don’t go off of points, but implied experience and who posted it. If person A gets 5 points with a hackjob answer, that’s not something I would accept because it stinks of an amateur hour job at best. Usually those get chosen because people go off of points and what worked for them (not knowing points are NOT relative compared to experience), rather then an overall look. Likewise if you post a more solid answer then the next person who came up with a one line solution, you get it with me.
The easiest way to clear that up is to limit closure voting to people with ~500-1k reputation points. If someone can attain that, then it’s easier to trust their judgement.
As far as the accept rate, I’ve just accepted that it’s likely never going to improve and it will probably take 6 months to get it closed.
I’m not too concerned about the bad answer closure - as long as the person voting proves they can pick the right one. I personally don’t go off of points, but implied experience and who posted it. If person A gets 5 points with a hackjob answer, that’s not something I would accept because it stinks of an amateur hour job at best. Usually those get chosen because people goo off of points and what worked for them, rather then an overall look. Likewise if you post a more solid answer then the next person, you get it with me.
The easiest way to clear that up is to limit closure voting to people with ~500-1k reputation points. If someone can attain that, then it’s easier to trust their judgement.
As far as the accept rate, I’ve just accepted that it’s likely never going to improve and it will probably take 6 months to get it closed.
