What's wong with forum?

Question

I see that "SoloLearners" jump into answering questions like "Best Software Jokes" or Give life coaching to other SoloLearners by acting as Pseudo-Motivators.
Due to all this kind of Shit the Real technical Questions Don't even show up.
We are actually degrading our own Forum here.
I see some top-notch SoloLearners Jumping into anwering those questions with some "motivational lines" and people blindly upvote such posts leading to further increase in them.

THIS REALLY NEEDS TO STOP!

Answer 1

I rarely see questions I would deem "technical" most I see posted apart from the jokes and general spam are general knowledge questions like how does x++ ++x work, is return needed and why does rand always give me the same number.

All these are covered in the course provided Yet they are the most commonly asked questions.In a sea of this. Seeing the occasional joke is a blessing.

Actual technical questions are few and far between if you ask me. Sure more would be great. But I am not holding my breath.

Answer 2

If solo learn could maybe put their q & a into a forum format, or group it up or something, the jokes and the technical wouldnt be clogging the same feed. ie. you choose what tags to follow in your feed, not just which people.. How do I leave this as feedback?

Answer 3

in example

https://www.sololearn.com/discuss/413806/?ref=app

got an answer? downvote? Upvote? idea? I will take it

Answer 4

lol. @Russel.. maybe you should ask sketchware. Wonder why that didnt get answered.. wow mate.. hahaha

Here are some examples

https://www.sololearn.com/discuss/378936/?ref=app

https://www.sololearn.com/discuss/392379/?ref=app

Answer 5

i dont see many unanswered technical questions for c++. plenty of general knowledge ones that it seems went by the wayside. Guess people got sick of answering the same question all the time.

There could be another reason for remaining unanswered as well. No one may understand the question or know the answer.

I have also asked questions that went unanswered. I believe it was due to them being too technical. Oh well. Can't win them all.

I guess what I am saying is: I don't really see it as a massive problem

Answer 6

@jay honestly I don't care for that app or that community. was hoping someone would steer me elsewhere

Answer 7

Click "most recent" or "unanswered". Most of those are technical questions. I answer many python related questions all the time.

Answer 8

https://www.sololearn.com/Discuss/396824/?ref=app

This has about 526 Answers 😂😂

Answer 9

@Russel Reeder that will really help if SoloLearn grouped up the questions to avoid clogging by giving an option to follow the tags and avoid all unwanted content.
I haven't tried this but I guess you can send the feedback to them here.
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Especially this last email id.

Answer 10

Common problem across the web: lack of any viable user controlled/focused moderation and filtering. Whoever solves this problem will probably be responsible for improving human productivity and happiness more than any other innovation since the invention of language.

The required algorithm looks something like... Implement a ubiquitous per person communications medium that requires little or no user interaction and honors individual preferences for "I don't want to see, hear, or even know about xxxxx. Unless I need or want to know about xxxxx."

In the meanwhile SoloLearn could seriously consider allowing users better options for moderation, filtering, and searching. Toggling on/off the noob posts and any post with > x downvotes would be worth A/B testing.

Answer 11

@jay There are sure technical questions that are asked but they don't show up and go deep into the forum feed unanswered due to all these "Jokes" and "Self-Motivation" and Flaunting of XP's and badges

Answer 12

@Sapphire I see you've done some great Job there the problem I am complaining about is that I don't see any upvotes to your posts because they haven't reached out to lot of users due to the stupid questions on the forum.
Many would've found your posts of great help if people would stop all the spam, flaunting and pseudo motivation which is sadly encouraged alot here.

Answer 13

This is a fine line between a couple of factors:

1) How often is the question asked?
2) The usefulness or complexity of the question
3) Is it relevant to me? (The person reading)

I'll address the first one:

1. How often is the question asked? Now this one can be defended a bit. Many times, the questions asked are often repeated several times a day, dozens of times a week. Often which, Sololearn courses provide an explanation and in most cases, a tutorial. At the same time, some users have difficulty understanding, so they post here inquiring the meaning or what not. This is perfectly fine, and most will help. But interest from the community won't be as high, or rather, answering the same question several times gets old for some. But that's up for debate.

This is a pretty general answer though.

Personally, if I don't answer a question on here, it's because:

> I don't know
> I'm busy (university)
> Not my area

Answer 14

Aditya I don't know how much I agree with you I feel so bad when ppl ask Unrelated stuff (though I answer them) technical questions r quite rare