Henry Dotterer wrote:
GoodWords wrote:
Allowing askers to close questions before 24 hours have passed has long been a factor contributing to poor choices and incorrect glossary entries. I foresee the above feature reinforcing this trend instead of working to counteract it. At what price convenience?
What you are saying - that in a rush quality will suffer - is true. We are not trying to replace the current model; the goal is different in FVA: it is to get the first validated answer, ie. the first acceptable answer (not the best possible answer.)
As this is not a replacement of anything, but a new experiment, such issues as not-for-points answers and the 24-hour moratorium, both of which are still on the table, are not pertinent to FVA.
At what price convenience?
Well, ask an interpreter - they usually don't get 24 hours!
The Asker may have to hope for a quick response, and hope that it's a good one -- it's a risk you sometimes have to take when you're faced with an imminent deadline and you can't find the answer elsewhere.
But that's an entirely different matter to elevating that hasty first answer to the "chosen" one in the KudoZ term search database. Why the rush to choose an answer for that?
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