How to handle inappropriate editing habits?
There are already several problems with the users of the Q&A site, mainly because the site format is different from the forum or mailing list culture. Among them, most frustrating seem to become:
The habit to continue the discussion using the "Answer" form, so completely bypassing the whole idea of a Q&A site.
Completely off-topic questions: Which companies in india work with opencv related projects?
So, what would be the policy to handle this kind of problems?
The bigger brother, StackOverflow, advocates for quick penalization, namely flagging/closing posts, motivating that as long as users with bad habits continue to receive answers, they will not follow the accepted rules. But if questions are closed (with a proper explanation), that will help them to follow the rules, for the common good.
I think a definite, enforced policy will help us keep the site clean, useful and interesting for all as it grows. Otherwise, it may become the next YahooGroups mailing list.
You have a point, I think using StackOverflow conventions is a good idea (IMHO) because they are tried and tested.
Agree. I think that better to delete by mistake a good question/answer/comment than to always leave the bad ones. If the question is important, it will be asked again, with all needed details and formatting. So, OpenCV team will try to create a set of [strict] rules and publish them. We'll probably invite the community when we have a proposal.
Any progress on this?
We have two updates.
Now people can answer their own question if only their karma is 50 and more. We hope that it will help to avoid "chatting". But it also means that people (with small karma) can't provide answers for their own questions, we recommend them to add information about the solution to the original post.
Now everybody (starting from karma 1) can vote. We'll see if this add positive dynamics to both good and bad questions and answers. We also need more adequate people with good karma to facilitate self-moderation on the forum.
So, let's check if these decisions are good or bad. We'll be able to change rules later.