Question

Revisit on miscellaneous subject rules

Answer 1

so basically, last month @eiwoh2 posted rules for the miscellaneous section and based on the medals that it got I will assume that it is popular and everyone agrees with the rules, for a reference it is right here https://questioncove.com/study#/updates/5fc1c39236a771540b8e3000

Answer 2

@Ultrilliam @shadow @dude @hero @vocaloid

Answer 3

-_- hush i was jp if they get in trouble thats them and its yall job soooooooo

Answer 4

Now out of all the things that are unaccepted in the miscellaneous subject rules, I don't agree with some of them. This one is one example, "- Questions that are not academic in nature, such as ones that take a quick Google search. These are considered spam, and will be taken down. Thus, it's best not to post anything such as these. Please note it makes the situation worse if you reply to it saying "ummm" or "this isn't academic". Simply report it, and let the moderators handle it." First I want to ask where the line is drawn between a "quick google search" and not. If a user doesn't know PEMDAS and they have a problem,
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Is this a valid question? Does this take a quick google search? If the user doesn't understand it then why would they ask it? That just doesn't make sense unless they are trying to spam and gain their SS, but wait. This is miscellaneous and miscellaneous doesn't affect SS so there is really no reason to have the quick google search part. If a user comes to the site seeking for help and they post something that a Moderator or Ambassador find as "spam'" then should they get punished for not knowing PEMDAS?
Now I do agree with the part where it says, "Please note it makes the situation worse if you reply to it saying "ummm" or "this isn't academic". Simply report it, and let the moderators handle it." This is what should be happening, but I want to point out that this ISN"T HAPPENING? Users are continuing to do this, not just in this subject but in other subjects as well. I have seen many times, someone posts hello or a zoom link or something and someone else types this isn't academic, delete this, basically initiating drama and spamming. Also one more thing, when I reported stuff like this, where users would say that "this isn't academic" why did they not get deleted. If these are the official rules why are moderators and ambassadors not following them? What happened for zero tolerance against the rules?

This brings to another thing, why can't non-academic things be posted in miscellanous?
This should be legal because the definition of miscellaneous means to consist of diversity and various things. Now ik that Mods/Ambass. will say this is a homework help site and non-academic posts are not allowed; well why then are non-academic posts where users say random stuff like "How are you" "This is spam" not deleted when reported? Targeting specific individuals or...? Im just pointing out the obvious no hate guys, but seriously. Another thing is we are a community, say for example someone gets selected into a very good college and s/he wants to post it, are you guys going to take it down because it is non-academic? Most people on here (that aren't new users) don't even come here for homework help, we have a socialization aspect too, and this rule is just taking away freedom from those users. I understand that you guys need to keep the situation under control, but if it is based on this rule I would like to disagree. I want everyone's opinions, should non-academic posts be allowed? within reason of course.

Answer 5

Now out of the rest of the rules in the unaccepted section they all make sense, if you have a personal matter there is a public chat, but don't expect everything non-academic to go into a public chat, we have 2 public chats that are available to everyone and well if you feel the need to announce something because it makes you happy or for some other reason it should not be deleted, who agrees?

Answer 6

Now what I was saying earlier, about how if you want to post something that well you just want to post to the community

-" Commending a user on reaching a SmartScore milestone. This should only be applied to those who have reached a higher level- such as 75 or 90, blue and green respectively. "
This literally goes along with this, you commend someone for reaching a milestone in QC levels, why can't this be applied to outside of just QC matters?

Now the other things that are accepted for misc section I agree with, if there isn't already a sub topic post it there, if the type of questions are popular request a subtopic to be made, simple as that.

honestly my opinion is that since miscellaneous questions don't add to your SS anyways, there is no deal with spamming for SS, now to reduce clutter some of these rules are good, others need attention to, and that's what I pointed out, if you have any questions please feel free to post them. I would like to hear from all of you too, which rules that are posted in the miscellaneous section do you agree with and which do you not

Answer 7

If any post violates the rules, report it and let the mods handle it. After the report has been made, no further concern regarding the post is necessary or required.

Answer 8

Miscellaneous not contributing to your SmartScore is false, I don't know where that rumor came from. As for things not being deleted, it is in time. Mods are understaffed right now and have lives outside of QuestionCove so sometimes it takes a little while to be deleted. In these instances an Ambassador usually closes it and we delete it when we can.

Answer 9

As for your example, that falls under math and is perfectly acceptable

Answer 10

Ok, what about if I post, "Its my mom's birthday"
That is going to get deleted I already know that,
The biggest point was to bring up whether some posts can be made that aren't academic, in the miscellaneous section, that you didn't answer @Ultrilliam

Answer 11

Also I reported something that was a clear violation of the rules, a mod/ambassador clicked on it and let it be. I won't say names in public but yeah. If we are going by the rules Howie posted then I reported everything that is considered spam, it didn't get deleted as a mod looked over it

Answer 12

`The biggest point was to bring up whether some posts can be made that aren't academic, in the miscellaneous section, that you didn't answer @ Ultrilliam`

All cases are situational, we can't really give you a definitive response for that reason.

Ambassadors have limited power, they cannot as much. At some point a mod will take a look at it. Once again, like previously stated, Mods are adults. We all have responsibilities within our own lives and there will be cases where we won't catch some reports due to the number of them we get at any given moment.

In addition to this, the reason non-educational posts are advised against is that it won't only be one post. You'll have lots of users following a post theme just because it was allowed. We prioritize those who genuinely need help. Flooding the questions section with Miscellaneous posts brings unnecessary attention to unrelated posts that end up having critical users waiting for help.


`Targeting specific individuals`

Not all users are vocal about their infractions and would be misleading to assume that only specific users receive them.


`if you feel the need to announce something because it makes you happy or for some other reason`

This is awfully generalized.

Answer 13

hmm ok. do u get a warning if u post a non-academic post the first time?

Answer 14

Generally, if you've been breaking rules outside of posts, then you are likely to receive one. If it is your first time breaking any rule at all then no.

Also, users who have been here for longer should know the rules. If for any reason you are unsure of posting something, you can always ask a mod.