Timeline for Is royal genealogy on- or off-topic? (Country irrelevant)
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| May 19, 2015 at 3:55 | comment | added | PolyGeo Mod | @ColeValleyGirl If you can see this deleted question I hope you will see that questions that look like they belong on Yahoo! Answers are being removed. | |
| May 15, 2015 at 15:19 | comment | added | Jan Murphy Mod | @PolyGeo it's no surprise to me that tech-related sites on SE graduate faster than non-techy sites. The comparison with Yahoo Answers is spot-on. I didn't come here until I discovered that people I knew and respected were behind this site. If I invite others in turn, I don't want them to hit the front page and find it is full of rubbish. | |
| May 15, 2015 at 10:34 | comment | added | PolyGeo Mod | That really is a list of ultra low quality questions but I do take your point that there will be a risk of setting the bar too low and having it slide lower. I wish only to lower it a little at a time to see if there is a sweet spot where questions of OK quality, or quality that can be edited to OK, start to flow more freely and provide a scaffolding for good to great answers. | |
| May 15, 2015 at 10:03 | comment | added | user104 | @PolyGeo, I'd be happy to see the site grow and attract more of the community out there, but only if we're offering them a real alternative to e.g. uk.answers.yahoo.com/dir/index?link=list&sid=396546034, not seeking to emulate it. | |
| May 15, 2015 at 9:28 | comment | added | PolyGeo Mod | I think we should be very proud of what we have built, and continue to build, but when I look at how popular Genealogy & Family History is as a serious hobby, I cannot help but think we are engaging only a small part of our potential community. | |
| May 15, 2015 at 9:22 | comment | added | user104 | I don't see it as a lack of success -- perhaps we should stop comparing ourselves with other very different sites and consider ourselves on our own merits instead. (Plus I'm still firmly of the opinion that lowering our standards might invite more crap that won't help us graduate anyway). | |
| May 15, 2015 at 9:17 | comment | added | PolyGeo Mod | @ColeValleyGirl The relatively bland branding, and the feeling that we have not yet succeeded. I've only been closely associated with two Betas and the other (GIS) graduated in not much more than 90 days (I think). | |
| May 15, 2015 at 9:11 | comment | added | user104 | Out of curiosity, why does being in Beta worry you? | |
| May 15, 2015 at 9:10 | comment | added | PolyGeo Mod | @ColeValleyGirl I would hate to be in Beta forever and am prepared for some hard work resetting the bar once we have the throughput to have graduated. In the meantime I think a bigger problem than too many poor questions is far too few questions of any standard. I like the idea of a 'canonical' question about researching Royal genealogy. | |
| May 15, 2015 at 9:05 | comment | added | user104 | Perhaps a 'canonical' question about researching Royal genealogy with a good answer about approaches, value, pitfalls etc. would give us something to point questioners at without lowering our standards. | |
| May 15, 2015 at 9:04 | comment | added | user104 | As we know know that we don't need to graduate out of Beta to remain in existence as a Stackexchange site, I'm bemused to see the argument (again) that we should relax our standards while we're in Beta. If we relax them now, we'll never recover them. | |
| May 15, 2015 at 2:49 | comment | added | Jan Murphy Mod | Another consideration is this one: trying to hook up your own genealogy to a known, famous genealogy encourages bad practice. There is a temptation to shoehorn in all the pieces to make things fit, instead of looking to see what the proper relationship is. You are not likely to be doing a reasonably exhaustive search if your goal is to reach someone else's line. The article Hillary Clinton Family Tree a Wake-Up Call for Genealogy shows how easy it is to take a wrong turn when you skip steps. | |
| May 14, 2015 at 22:54 | history | edited | PolyGeoMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 14, 2015 at 22:51 | comment | added | Jan Murphy Mod | I would still vote to close the example question on the grounds that it is low-quality. If people ask questions with the intellectual rigor that is expected for The Henry Project, that's a different kettle of fish entirely. | |
| May 14, 2015 at 22:51 | history | edited | PolyGeoMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 14, 2015 at 22:46 | history | answered | PolyGeoMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |