The question quality is insanely low.

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Many duplicate questions, questions that can be easily looked up, and stuff of the likes have been popping up.

This is honestly degrading the value of points and now they are now easy to get, like pennies (or bundles of $500 for Bill Gates.) We have 40 Experts+ on the site with the newest editon of Brotad.

The majority of the questions are from newer users, which is why I propose this:

All questions that users ask that have x points or below must be approved by an Expert+.
When I say "x", I'm looking at around 1k to 3k points. And we could also make this Editor+ if Pokemaster wishes so.

This will help the quality of questions rise and points will be somewhat harder to get. Yay :D

Also, a quick point...
> Make Experts handpicked by Mods. Not just the title, but the powers too. This discourages people to go tryhard for Expert. Let the mods have a little council about it with you and we can reform the Experts. -Ninja, 02/02/14

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Don't forget to flag repeats then. put the link to the original as well.

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probably around 20-30 active experts+

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@DT we should make a thread for that.
@Semp This is true

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Yey more perms for me <3 *upvote*

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I agree with Ninja js.
Too many people try answer just for the points to get to expert.

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^ People ask questions for the same reason.

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Honestly, I don't think there's anything wrong with duplicate questions.
As long as the question is answered (even if it's just 'this question has already been asked: http://pokemondb.net/pokebase/meta/44827 ) then it seems fine.

That's the point of the Q & A - if the asker gets the answer, even if they look through previous questions or ask a duplicate question then everyone's happy, and if a(n) editor/mod wants they can hide it.

And as for Ninja's and Koddles' point, what's the problem exactly? It's a Q & A site remember. The whole point is to answer/ask questions - that's a problem now? Of course, if it's stupid answers like 'i dunno just use the dowsing machine' then I see your point but asking/answering questions is the point of this whole site! Remember you don't even earn points if they aren't quality questions or answers.

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"Remember you don't even earn points if they aren't quality questions or answers."

Hah. BS.

Here is the problem, people don't check the yellow box. Or the related questions. Then people answer with bad answers. Both get votes. I don't have a problem with this system, expect people abuse it for Expert.

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I definitely agree with this. There are people with high points that don't even deserve to have them. Those people also get spam upvoted just for a very very low quality answer. Points now just aren't like the old times, where you had to work to get Expert. I would suggest something, but it might be way out of line for some. The Expert Title either has to be removed, or the system of Points needs a refine. I mean, just being able to edit answers isn't really something that is worth keeping if we have Active Mods and Editors. That's just my opinion though.

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Is it doable to have PM & editors & mods choose experts? Or is that too much to add to the admin workload?

Also sometimes the yellow box doesn't actually come up with the question you're asking (I know from experience).

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I'm going to agree with the handpicking Experts suggestion by Ninja. That would really solve a lot of issues such as spamming answers and it would also make it so that people are answering for the sake of answering as opposed to points.

I guess I'm not adding much to this in any way but, that's my opinion.

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I don't like the idea of raising the limit of points needed for approval to anything higher than 200. If Experts were handpicked, I wouldn't mind giving them approving capabilities. Those who hit 6000 still should be able to edit on Pokebase however to improve the quality of questions.

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'Remember you don't even earn points if they aren't quality questions or answers'
Can I make a point, that I answered a question which was asking if this slowbro strategy was good or something like that. I got like 50 points off it. My answer was a sentence long.

So yeah. Plenty of people get it through bad quality questions and answers

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l have been seeing this happen a lot for the past few months and even a year.
Just seeing silly answers with silly questions makes everything a silly mess.
People are too blinded at reaching the 6000 point goal that they forget the whole purpose of this site.

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Koddles-dear, are you talking about the RMT?
If so, I don't know anything 'bout that. Sorry. x)

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No. Pokebase question. Someone posted a moveset of Slowbro, asking if it was good. I said 'Yes, I don't see anything wrong with it'. Gets 50 points. :D!

Answer 1

Really bad questions should be flagged and hidden as normal. Questions that abide by the rules, but aren't great quality, should either be edited to improve them.

The current approval process is 50% for spam prevention and 50% for new users. I don't think that sending dozens and dozens of posts for approval is going to improve anything. It will just make the people asking good questions more frustrated.