Improving Yedda

Another suggestion: what about an option to add additional tags to a question in case you think that the asker missed some relevant tags?

This could make the "asker - answerer match-making" extremely efficient. Or what about an option to correct misspelled tags?

As to avoid abuse of service, this could be implemented by a procedure of submitting additions/ corrections to the asker for review. That is the suggested/ corrected tags would appear only if the asker had approved them.

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Yaniv,

The new "pager" is exactly what I was talking about. :)

 Regearding the value of the person who posted the question: I agree that the fact that someone asked a question doesn't guarantee that his opinion regarding what is the best answer is always the right opinion (esp. on Yedda, in which a lot of the questions posted are matters of opinion, not fact). In that aspect, maybe there isn't much sense in allowing the person who posted a question to determine completely on his own what's the best answer.

But, there's room for an alternative.  Maybe, when I check answers to questions I've posted, I'll have before me, besides the thumb-up and thumbs-down icons, another icon titled "asker's choice" or something of that sort. I would be able to change the "on/off" states of that icon in a similar way to that of the thumbs icons. Another variation would be an indication whether a thumbs-up credit given to a certain question was by the user who posted it. These suggestions should not interfere with the regular thumbs-up ranking of the answers, but add more information regarding what the user who posted the question was really looking for.

Better search capablities. It is hard to find what you are looking for.

I've seen this issue on other sites: Yedda needs forums.  On other sites, the "service space" (whether that is the question-answer system, or opinion system, or something else) gets polluted with material that really belongs in a forum.  

I feel a little bit limited on this site.  Seems like there should be access to more questions and responses at a given time. 

For example, say my interest is music, then when I logon, perhaps I see the following, all displayed in a full or abbreviated form. (more than just the topic header)

1. New un-awnsered questions relating to music
2. Recent popular posts in music
3. Any recent activity on my posts

I know that currently, these items are readily available, but must be physically accessed via mouse click.   

Perhaps what I am really looking for is a steady stream of new and interesting information without necessarily engaging the website to find it  Hope that isn't too vague.

;)

Re the thumb UP/DOWN : I think that YEDDA should monitor the thumb up/down and "see" if they are "real" I.E. grades the answers or are given to change the statistics.

Another idea is to add a reason to why grade an answer with a thumb down. Is the answer wrong , the link not valid or the question was not understood?

I wrote also a detailed private letter to Yaniv about the subject but everyone can check my idea looking , for example on questions I answered yesterday 8.11 and try to decide if every one of them was so bad to get 4 thumb down...

I wrote that it would be interesting to find IF the same participants gave the thumb up/down or not.

Yoav, thanks for the ideas, I think that giving a reason for thumb down makes a lot sense and would be an important source of feedback for answerers. We'll do that.