Answer by Jean-François Fabre for Remove the incentive for FGITW to answer...
If I understand correctly, there's already a mechanism to prevent people (only high-rep users apparently) to answer too quickly (Throttling trusted users). I'm glad I never stumbled into it BTW. So why...
View ArticleAnswer by Jason C for Remove the incentive for FGITW to answer well known dupes
I don't see this as a major problem but let's assume it is. I just can't see this working, for a few reasons: This punishment isn't preventative, it's retroactive. It doesn't happen instantly. I think...
View ArticleAnswer by James Bailey for Remove the incentive for FGITW to answer well...
I have to ring in that I ask a question sometimes that I see has been asked before, however of 5-10 of the questions I searched, there were few or no votes for an answer. I love this site, and will...
View ArticleAnswer by Shog9 for Remove the incentive for FGITW to answer well known dupes
You're making a few assertions here: There's only one common incentive (rep) for answering duplicates Common duplicates are always easy to identify Removing reputation for answers to common duplicates...
View ArticleAnswer by Ian Ringrose for Remove the incentive for FGITW to answer well...
I believe we need to sort this problem out from two sides... Firstly we need to provide an incentive for people to find duplicates. We then need an incentive for answers to confirm the duplicate And we...
View ArticleAnswer by Sobrique for Remove the incentive for FGITW to answer well known dupes
FGITW is the problem - dupe answering is merely one of the manifestations. Put very simply - Stack Overflow is about gamification. You get points for doing stuff. That drives behaviour - that's the...
View ArticleAnswer by Yvette Colomb for Remove the incentive for FGITW to answer well...
I like Gnat's answer and IanRingrose's answer particularly as a way to circumvent the issues of reputation loss and to address motivating people to close dupes. I also have a suggestion, which could...
View ArticleAnswer by gnat for Remove the incentive for FGITW to answer well known dupes
I happily upvoted this because I believe that folks answering obvious, blatant duplicates do not deserve reputation. But this comment ruined my day: if this was ever implemented... you'd end up with a...
View ArticleAnswer by user4151918 for Remove the incentive for FGITW to answer well known...
If you want to penalize someone, you should penalize users who repeatedly don't take the time to check for answers, before asking their duplicate questions. I think the ideal solution is a combination...
View ArticleAnswer by Drew for Remove the incentive for FGITW to answer well known dupes
TLDR A new queue is created, called the Pending Questions queue. It receives certain questions. It is possible those questions never become live and see the light of day. I respectfully disagree with...
View ArticleAnswer by Kevin B for Remove the incentive for FGITW to answer well known dupes
I'll summarize a bit of my comments from below. I used to be a FGITW user. I would come to the site, look for questions to answer, and answer them as fast as possible. It was a game to me, I wanted to...
View ArticleAnswer by user000001 for Remove the incentive for FGITW to answer well known...
If you believe that the question is so useless that the people that spent their time answering it, should lose their rep, you can vote to delete it. If the question is just closed, and not deleted, I...
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Remove the incentive for FGITW to answer well known dupes
TL;DR Where a dupe target has n number of duplicates closed against it, if future questions closed to that dupe target are answered, all the rep for those answers is nullified. This way, there is no...
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