Timeline for The Red Ink Initiative
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| Apr 29, 2012 at 14:09 | comment | added | Nathan C. Tresch | I have the very strong opinion that we need to make it easy and fun to post stories and excerpts from our bodies of words, (civilians call them stories or books), because all writers need feedback and without that there is a gaping hole in the functionality of the site. | |
| Feb 28, 2012 at 20:42 | comment | added | VolcanoLotus | @Standback I look forward to those discussions. I wish I could be more constructive in terms of offering concrete suggestions, but I haven't thought of any yet; I'll be sure to pop in and share them in the appropriate meta should I come up with any. | |
| Feb 28, 2012 at 20:21 | comment | added | Goodbye Stack Exchange Mod | You can count on seeing more about these issues in meta and in chat soon. | |
| Feb 28, 2012 at 20:20 | comment | added | Goodbye Stack Exchange Mod | You're absolutely correct, there's no clear direction on how to ask a good Writers.SE question. This site is made up of mostly subjective questions, and we expect that to continue. This is Writers, not Stack Overflow. For now, we're probably going to concentrate on pruning away the worst offenders: chatty questions that would work better in a forum, and questions that can't possibly be definitively answered. We may be wrong in a few cases, and we'll own up to that when we are. But we'll need help to do this right, and I hope we can get many dialogs like this going in meta. | |
| Feb 28, 2012 at 20:01 | comment | added | Standback Mod | (cont.) You'll be seeing appropriate discussions on Meta quite soon, and they're no less part of this initiative than the moderation is. :) | |
| Feb 28, 2012 at 20:01 | comment | added | Standback Mod | I agree very strongly with this sentiment - Writers.SE is very much still "in testing," and figuring out what we want to do is even more important than figuring out what we don't want to do. The two aren't mutually exclusive - in fact, they compliment each other, since staying farther away from the "bad" forces more attention to what's left. More to the point, though, we are absolutely devoting attention to figuring out what "good" questions are like. The trouble is that we haven't yet succeeded at this (even after a lot of time in Beta). | |
| Feb 28, 2012 at 18:58 | history | answered | VolcanoLotus | CC BY-SA 3.0 |