Sololearn must improve the quality of the Q&A Discussions and comments or this app will go down! We should discuss this problem!

Question

Hello everybody!
I love Sololearn and the creators did a lot of great work to create a stunning app like this.
However I see a lack of quality in the comments and discussions which is not really helpful for a good experience.
There are way too many posts here that either are not in English, have a bad title, are no questions at all (I don't come here to read another bad joke) or are just asked for the sake of asking. (I consider the "Asker" badge as not really helpful).
Are you with me or am I wrong here?

Answer 1

+1

I think too the discussion section would be advantage by a better organisation...

Note also that the comments of the code playground don't be listing in our posts section profile ^^

Answer 2

A minimal organisation would be necessary, or we dive in a vicious circle: who want maintains efforts to have a clean place if the majority don't care?

I think, unfortunatly, we ( weel, the SoloLearn staff in fact ) must deal with a drastically choice: content quality, but little almost private community, or many members, but diluted ( to not say "homeopathic" ) quality...

As on a forum, we need differents sections for clean search-reading... and in the code playground too ( just have public/private isn't suffisant, a minimal system of tagging, or better directory organistation would get great help ): so, the coders/posters can easily navigate between section purely about technics, section reliable with curses ( often, discussions providing by curses aren't comprehensible when accessing via other entry points )

And I think it would be great too, if the writing tools would be improving by few things who would incite members to stand clean:

- at least a minimal layout tools set ( bold, italic, underlining, strokink ) and possibility to distinguish pieces of quotation, code ( would be awesome if with syntax highlighting )

- for the plasure an extensive layout tools set ( color, size, tabs and so on ), a better integration of links ( actually the links from the discussions and the code playground of the website are working in the app, but links to profiles don't ) with possibility of hidding the url ( custom label different of url-text ) and whatever which can encourage people to make beautiful post...

Answer 3

I agree.
My suggestions are
1. Don't ask plain stupid questions, like "What is HTML?"
2. Before posting a new question, search if the same question has been addressed before too.
3. QA forum is not a place for jokes, such things cause the real questions to go unaddressed.
4. Don't mislead. Don't answer if you're not sure.
5. Use proper English, as far as possible.

Answer 4

We might think all that suggestions should be a implicit common sense behavior of all of us, but they aren't

Have you seen the number of answers and likes of the jokes?

So, how do you propose to achieve that goals?

Answer 5

Questions are asked elsewhere too. But nobody posts jokes on stack exchange. The community is immature at this time. Maybe moderators should keep check. Also questions with negative upvotes must be archived. Its easy to let things go as they are going. But then everyone will start posting jokes everytime and real coding will be lost. The idea should be to make "programming with fun" not just "another funny place"

Answer 6

Code Theft is a big issue too. Please take a look at this too:
https://www.sololearn.com/Discuss/137751/?ref=app

Answer 7

I hope you will send your suggestions to Sololearn using feedback section

I agree with you, but, here's a problem,
The forum doesn't have rules of posting and behavior, so, anybody said that you only can post in English, or you can't post jokes or very very very basic questions, so as I said

it's only politeness and common sense, not rules

Answer 8

Thank you all for your answers.

@Dago: I have sent the feedback already. I didn't get answer (not that I expected one) but at least I wanted to check out here that I am not alone with this opinion.

The most simplest thing to do would be a FAQ with common questions and a text with rules you have to agree with before posting a new question.

Different sections could make the problem worse or better. I am not totally against offtopic and jokes but there must be a place for it. Same goes with questions that are not in English.

I guess mature moderators will have the most impact.

The question is tough if sololearn really want to make changes because the quality may increase but the quantity will decrease. it is cool to see that there are new posts every minute and sololearn can say they have a good community however the value is near to zero.

do you have any suggestions for increasing the quality here?