Timeline for Should the Kindle Fire contest be a little more restrictive?
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| Mar 16, 2017 at 15:45 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://meta.android.stackexchange.com/ with https://android.meta.stackexchange.com/
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| Dec 5, 2011 at 19:16 | comment | added | ale Mod | As the contest is now over and the winners announced I have removed that tag from all the questions (and added links to them in the announcement instead). The empty tag will be removed by the system automatically in a couple of days. | |
| Nov 29, 2011 at 20:31 | comment | added | ale Mod | I am sure the tag will not live long past the end of the contest. In fact, I guarantee it. | |
| Nov 29, 2011 at 19:37 | comment | added | Matthew Read Mod | Understood. I know the site promotion thing is by necessity a learn-on-the-fly sort of deal. It would be nice if the devs could come up with a system to make promotions easier so we don't have to abuse things that were never meant for this. | |
| Nov 29, 2011 at 19:37 | comment | added | samthebrand Staff | @Aaronaught - In Re: What can we do? I'm writing an email to all users who have questions involved in the contest requesting they up/downvote good/bad answers & mark correct any correct answer. Hopefully this goes some distance in promoting positive behavior on the site and maybe eliminates some of the opportunity to leave unhelpful answers. | |
| Nov 29, 2011 at 19:34 | comment | added | samthebrand Staff | @MatthewRead - as for the entry requirement, by default I'm always of the mindset that there should be very little barrier to entry when it comes to contributing on the site and/or participating in a contest designed at outreach. Clearly this creates some problems, but gets some new eyeballs on us 2. I probably should have been more clear in the meta post about whether there should be a rep req to participate, and maybe should have been more clear about the contest in general. But it's unrealistic to crowdsource the whole thing. At some point I have to make a judgement call + pull the trigger. | |
| Nov 29, 2011 at 19:33 | comment | added | Aaronaught | Of course, and no finger-pointing here; even if you'd been very explicit about the design, who knows if foresight would have been the same as hindsight; it's the Law of Unintended Consequences at work. Question is, now that we know, what can we do? Maybe not much... | |
| Nov 29, 2011 at 19:32 | comment | added | Matthew Read Mod | It's certainly very useful, it's attracted a lot of attention. The problem is the side effects. I'd be more worried about Jeff's hate of meta tags than ours, personally :P | |
| Nov 29, 2011 at 19:26 | comment | added | samthebrand Staff | @MatthewRead - I should have been more clear. I didn't see a need for the meta tag initially, but found use for it while writing up the official contest post as I wanted a dynamic list - denoting what's been answered & whats not - of all questions involved in the contest. I didn't see a problem with requesting this tag, but I was perhaps uninformed about the hate for meta tags here. Now I know. Still, I think the utility of the temporary tag (not to mention I've promoted the tag URL) trumps the hate. Though I'll be careful to stay away from them in the future. | |
| Nov 29, 2011 at 19:12 | comment | added | Matthew Read Mod | I'm not sure the design of the contest was made clear. The subject and the particular questions, yes, but all that was mentioned about the workings of the contest was that you'd consider offering bounties. The tag and the entry requirements weren't known till the contest started. | |
| Nov 29, 2011 at 19:07 | history | answered | samthebrandStaff | CC BY-SA 3.0 |