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Since we have such a small community, maybe we should vote up more!
What do you guys say? Let's everyone go for the Civic Duty badge?
I know we don't have other SE sites critical mass and a lot of people don't care about searching before posting so we have an enormous amount of repeated and/or unanswered questions.
But I still see too many people answering good questions and answers being accepted with both having 0 score. Mostly, questions have 0 score. That means who's asking the question isn't voting on the accepted answer and who's answering isn't voting on the question. Both sounds contradictory to me!
Plus that's specially bad for new users who stays with 1 score and can't use the site properly - we need 15 score to be able to vote up and 10 to not be considered a spammer by the system.
I don't know, maybe I'm being too geeky here. Most people clearly don't care. But I hope if more people become aware of this as an issue it can help the community to grow larger more rapidly.
Seems like some good points. (I up-voted this - does that help? :)
There are many duplicates. I don't believe those deserve any vote up, even if the first one got a lot, because they didn't bother to search or check the drop-down list first. It doesn't take much to get 15 points here, seriously.
@DaveA they should get, at very least, a comment pointing the duplicate. :)
I have recently popped 10k rep but so far I've always been regarded a spammer by the system :) Annoying captchas pop up because of my fast edits.
I do agree, but I don't think that it's a huge deal as the whole rep system is to have community moderators... Like, the only reason I worked on getting up my "rep" is because I wanted to format and add the code thing in because that was a pet peeve of mine haha.
But if people start voting up questions that are repeated, their's no reason... Only important/rare questions should be voted up in my opinion... I don't want people asking how do you import a model, or where can I get free models, or other near idiotic questions... Their is a company called Google, who makes finding these answers hellishly easy...
I understand you mean not EVERY question, but I do vote up some questions, and I really don't think the system currently enforces new users to actually vote, if even select an answer to their question... When I started back in Oct. I didn't know about accepting an answer or anything until I started clicking random things one day... So maybe if their was a guide for how to use the program, then people would be more inclined to actually participating...
But yes, as someone compared us to SO (Stackoverflow), look at the vote up's on questions, and even stupid questions... It's impressive really, but I don't see that happening here because people, including me, don't want people to pursue the pointless questions... I wish people would spend just five seconds to actually search what they want before posting...
But meh, what can we do? Hah.
I think the easiest way we could "improve" the questions that make it to the top is voting up any legitimate, intelligent question that is unanswered. Typically (and I'm guilty of this), I don't care if a question has been asked in an intelligent manner, I end up looking for things that score brownie points (like if someone bothered to draw a huge schematic of what they want or whatever). Ideally, I guess it wouldn't be asking too much for us to just vote up anything that is legitimate, moderately intelligent, and unanswered.
That's the spirit, Jason! I am, at other hand, guilty for voting up redundant questions if the user has just 1 point and I can see it's not a spammer / bot, even if the question is repeated. Not always just because we can't find a duplicate it means the question isn't good and clear.
As long as you get the answer you were seeking, the Unity Answers website is successful. If you are really, truly interested in Unity, you will figure out how to use this site properly.
Shawn
