Moderating existing Answers and Comments
While going through questions that have votes for taking specific actions here's my opinion:
Even if an answer is very poor or even wrong, it is still an attempt at an answer.
A lot are just comments, that are posted as answers. IMHO these should not be deleted but just attached to the correct post.
A lot of the answer are basically "me too". If these are deleted the person never gets notified when a correct answer does come along so I attach them as comments to the OP.
Any suggestions as to how I moderate or why could be done right now on this post ;-)
There are no posted guidelines for moderation, @oldturkey03 and I do most of it. @danj, for the most part, still answers most of the Mac questions that I used to do and i have no problem with that. For the most part we both have arrived at the same criteria by using common sense and practice. Mike seems to have more patience and is kinder than I am and not nearly as obstreperous. But he's younger and probably doesn't ache as much as I do yet.
Is this a worthwhile discussion?
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@mayer, I am with you on that. Lets try and continue to convert those to comments unless they are way off.
by oldturkey03
This is an example that three of you want moderated to a comment
https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/77/W...
However, it is not a comment. It's an answer. Yes, it's a wrong answer, but it is an answer. If you don't like it vote it down.
@pccheese @thethirdtwin @lpfaff1
by mayer
@mayer taking care off the OT way;-)
@pccheese @thethirdtwin @lpfaff1 definitely an answer, bad one but an answer.
by oldturkey03
Also boys, I am not a maid and neither is Mike. I could sit here 8 hours a day for 6 months, going through questions and moving "me too" answers to comments, but I'm not going to, so please don't request me to use my time doing this on moderation.
Request moderation on real problems that need real moderation. I will do them when i run across them. i did over 20 "me too's" on just one question this morning @oldturkey03 @kelsea
@pccheese @thethirdtwin @lpfaff1
by mayer
@mayer @oldturkey03
Sorry, just started a new job, been hella busy.
Ok, so I've been looking through the mod tab lately and been giving it a go, I've said to myself, if it's in here it surely needs moderating, if I can I should sorta deal, although obviously by the looks of things this is causing more trouble than it's helping, I've been trying to keep the ambiguous answers to a minimum, but like I said I thought if it's in there I should at least give an opinion on the report.
Although, I'm not trying to start an argument here, I think that taking out the $@$*!& non-answers from a thread and moving them to comments or just deleting them improves the quality of the overall thread.
Regardless, I think I'll step back from the moderation for a while.
by Conor Bailey
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