Pokemaster: Regarding technical questions and hyperspecific questions.

Question

Would we like to allow super specific questions like How many times has team rocket blasted off or ones that would require deeper knowledge of the game's programming (which most people won't have access to) like IVs of unique trainers or do we want to take a middle route of hiding or something after a certain period of time?

We've had some posts unanswered for over a year, several pushing a year, and I think it can come down to some of this being really inaccessible information.

I'd personally think it better to hide these, but I won't touch anything without a green light first.

Comments

@DT yea i get THAT part, i just figured if you had a question as terrible as that IV one that sumwun posted you would just go ahead and trash it.

@sumwun I feel like this whole wave of super unanswerable questions is a pretty new thing to the site. I remember after XY came out there were only 2 questions on the unanswered list for like a year and they were "What is the chance of finding a Pokemon with a HA in a wild horde battle" and "what determines friend safaris" which are both questions with actually usable information. now theres like 35 unanswered questions and theyre all just dumb, the quality of pokebase has really DIPPED

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The quality isn't objective, is the problem. 'Annoying' is subjective, and the questions are not low quality (via the way auth normally judge it, terrible s&g, difficult to understand, easily looked up etc). They do not break the rules in any way and thus we do not have any precedence to hide them. You thinking that the mentioned question is 'terrible' is your opinion. An opinion shared by many, granted, but opinion nonetheless.

The content doesn't break rules in any way so there's no actual reason to hide them other than 'their annoying'. If I were to hide things because they were annoying, huge chunks of the site would be gone lmao.

'Pokemaster may have put up moderators to help keep up the quality of the site, but at the end of the day it's his site. I don't feel right just hiding masses of questions on just my opinion alone especially because what I think and feel might be different from that of other moderators/editors/etc.'

This is just it. Its PMs site and we don't want to go around hiding stuff on our whims.

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I can agree that one moderator shouldn't hide those questions entirely based on his own opinion. But if there appears to be a general consensus between moderators and editors that such questions should be hidden, I see nothing wrong with hiding them without PM's permission. Whether those questions are hidden or not isn't that big of a deal that he has to be directly involved.

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And as melcakes mentioned, the rules already say "Avoid trivial questions". The team rocket one should be considered a trivial question.

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Trivial refers to trivial to find the answer to on the website, not as in actual trivia.