[META] UA idea, would double UA work?

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I'm sorry to ask this here, ...

but I kinda always see same crap and mods like me can't do much, ...

there's 80 - 95% of questions that I just refuse, nor am I answering the crap.

now think of looking only for 30% of good questions that were aproved, and 50% of them unanswered.

it's like 15% of good questions that weren't answered. now try finding that in history of UA.

and I've just got an idea as heaving 2. UA with propably waaaay less Questions but most propably way better answers.

I was thinking heaving it this way:

NOTE KARMA SYSTEM FOR ADV section OF UA

(K>=0) . . . You are able to read everything except deleted posts.
(K>50) . . . You are able to upvote.
(K>500) . . You are able to post a question in MOD queue.
(K>2000) . You are able to post a question without MOD queue.
(K>2500) . You are able to flag offensive, close questions.
(K>3000) . You are able to vote down.
(K>3500) . You are able to read MOD queue
(K>4000) . You are able to Edit other people's posts
(K>5000) . You are able to Approve MOD Queue questions
(K>15000) You are able to Delete any post, convert answers to comments and vice versa

why because I believe in learning system. first you watch few times a MOD queue and what goes through.

and there's plenty of 5k + users to approve questions OFC if it's not too crappy Q.

what can we ask here is same stuff that we can ask in normal UA except here only users with more than 500K can participate.

AND even more if user with 500 karma will be asking garbage in advanced section 15000K users will probably take some of his karma away because he didn't learn his lesson YET.

if you have any better idea please comment.

Answer 1

Ok, so I'm wondering why anybody cares that there are questions about null pointers or beginning programming things, or indeed discussions around game design ideas. I've was flicking through the "most voted" questions the other day and there's a litany of people saying "UA is degrading" blah blah blah, me included, for years.

I've been spouting the mantra of "this is a KB" and "don't ask for script" like the rest - but here's what I now think:

I started using Unity because of the community, we chose it as a platform because of the great support you get - people say all the time that "UDK community is crap compared to this". I use UA because this format of seeing answers and getting to the bottom of things is way superior to a forum when it's a thing that has one or more "Answers" not only definitive answers.
It's too late to make this a knowledge base with one definitive answer per question because a) there's too much stuff anyway and b) that isn't how beginners consume information.
Who the hell browses this site for fun? As a consumer you get here because of Google, if you are Googling Unity Null Reference Exception then there's never going to be a definitive answer anyway. This site 's entry page is a list of things that people are trying to work on now, and that's just fine. I can skip past some questions that are junk why not. Really it's only us who consume this site in that way.

So lets say some user who's pretty smart comes along and says I want to design X, I've got Y and can you help me. There are a number of solutions and I think they should be posted here - not buried in a pile of reply with quotes on the forum - if they get an answer at all. It's much more useful for the user and the community to see the gamut of possibilities and understand the level of support those solutions have using the voting system.

Let's say, as happened the other day, that someone asks about calculating something to do with vector math and is referred to some other math related site - because it's not "Unity" - well I think that the solution to these problems can be expressed in Unity very specifically - and anyway why not answer questions about FTP etc if the user is trying to execute it in the particular environment of Unity and Mono. Why wouldn't we answer. What harm is it actually doing? I've been here 2 years now, I can't see that it makes a shred of difference and it helps the user and it grows our community. I find it extremely unlikely UA would ever be inundated with questions that have nothing to do with games in our environment.

So I've decided to make this an answer, because I firmly expect it to receive downvotes as I appear to have a very contrary position.

Answer 2

AnswerHub might provide us with an inbuilt solution: Spaces. Topics in his answer probably mean tags.

The way I understood that answer, is that there is a way to have a space for all questions, and then another space for the advanced topics. He mentions that these spaces are able to have different permissions. This seems to imply a possibility for having only people ,say, above 1k karma ask questions there.

I say 1k karma, because I imagine by then that user has an idea what is considered advanced in UA and can make an informed desicion whether to ask in the normal space or the advanced space. Everyone would still be able to browse - and even answer and comment in - the advanced space.

I would also imagine that moderators would then be granted an option to move questions between these spaces, in case someone below 1k karma asks an advanced question in the default space.

We could also have a dedicated space for these META topics, like other respectable QA-sites.

Of course, even if we do tell Unity support, it'll depend on UA actually being updated by Unity Technologies...

[META] UA idea, would double UA work?

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