If the moderators kick your question back for editing, would it help you know if there had been responses, and what those responses were?

Questions pushed into editing should be visible if you know the URL. For example this:

http://www.fluther.com/168303/*/

I guess if it is a big problem you could just bookmark each question so you could check.

The few times I’ve had a question modded, I’ve tweaked it and submitted it to go back into the feed. The problem is that it goes back into the feed at the same point it was at when it was modded off, so if it took me two days to log in and edit, then it goes back to the feed buried deep down. If you’re like me, you scroll down as far as the last point you were at from your last log in, so nobody would find the question and answer it.

Usually, if something is modded, the mod will clarify what the problem is. You can always pm them and discuss.

I avoid problems like I’ve described above by being very careful with my wording, grammar, spelling. I also try to log on often and so if something is modded (which is rare due to the wording, etc.) I catch it and can fix.

You have a good point, but Fluther is not being altered at this time so it seems fruitless to complain. It is what it is, good and bad.

Here’s what would happen:

@newjelly would ask a question riddled with errors (because @newjelly has no idea how we roll here), then go off and eat dinner. Meanwhile, several jellies would compose well thought-out answers. Now, the fact is that when someone writes an answer here, they intend for it to be read by more than just the asker; they know they’re talking to everybody, that’s part of the appeal of this place.

While @newjelly is eating, the Q gets modded. After dinner, she checks back in and sees the modded question, along with its answers. She decides that those answers are all she really needs (or that she has stirred a hornet’s nest), and why bother making all those changes the anal mods are demanding? She abandons the Q (probably without any acknowledgment to the answerers), meaning that no one else will ever see the answers. That’s not cool. When somebody abandons a Q, they take it upon themselves to toss everyone’s work in the waste bin.

Unfortunately, for better or worse, we have to live with any flaws that Fluther may have, because there is no further development of the site. Even if we did decide that a change was a good idea, it couldn’t possibly be implemented.

Thanks, @johnpowell. It’s not a huge problem for me.

I wasn’t really whining, @jca, I just thought it worth discussing. I re-wrote one because of the jet lag you mentioned, “back to the feed buried deep down” and it turned out there were a number of answers, so people were displeased. Then the next time I edited the question, which caused ⅔ of the answers already posted to be removed for irrelevance.

Yes, see, the problem @thorninmud, is that I recently unintentionally abandoned a question that had good answers, but I was unaware of that because when a question is modded, the answers go with it. 4 days had gone by before the question would have been re-posted, so I thought I was doing the best thing by re-asking.

I think that’s all the more reason to discuss these things, @downtide. I don’t really see them as “flaws”, more quirks. There are end-runs around almost anything, but you have to be aware to communicate effectively.

@ibstubro Don’t you get email notifications when someone answers your Q’s? If not, maybe you deselected “New Activity” in the “Notifications” page of your account settings. That would have let you know that you had received answers.

@ibstubro: I did not use the word “whining.” I don’t know why you referred to “whining” as something that I said.

@thorninmud Thanks for pointing out a cool new attitude of some new jellies sigh. In that case, Yahoo! Answer would be better since they never seem to put any answer back for editing.

If I get email notifications, @thorninmud, they go into a folder I created: i.e. they are available for me to review, but do not appear in my email proper. I honestly do not remember, and it’s not unusual for me to go 2–3 days without accessing my email.

Sorry, @jca, I used ‘whining’ in jest. Tongue in cheek. I was making light of the situation, trying to diffuse the situation of you thought “it seems fruitless to complain”. I was not complaining, I was discussing as I tried to make clear in the rest of that post, especially my response to @downtide.

I do not understand the intent of your post, @Mimishu1995. Can you re-phrase or expound on your post? I can’t tell if you’re…

@ibstubro Reference to @thorninmud ‘s first post here (the one with 5 GA)