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So. We have the Patrol Coach, which lets users know if they accidentally approved a bad edit. It was really helpful to me (until I got patrol blocked:sob:)

Anyway, I had an idea for a Question Coach. I like to approve questions, but I’m not always sure if it’s a good question or a bad question. If someone accidentally approved a bad question, the Question Coach would deliver a message similar to the Patrol Coach

“Oops! It looks like you accidentally approved a bad question while approving questions just now. That’s okay though, you’re still learning. I undid a batch of your recent approvals so other users can go back and fix them.”

Something like that. So, @JayneG , what do you think? Let me know.

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If the Question Coach is a thing - the Coach would be green (wikiHow colors) and will have the same expressions as the Patrol Coach. But this would be a good idea since I’m seeing new editors working on the tool.

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Thanks:smile:

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That way no one would approve
pee pee poo poo? Poo pee pee poo pee poo poo pee. Pee poo pee. PEE POO!:grinning::+1:
Hehe

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lol

Why would anyone want to write a question about pee and poop

No offense meant, but it’s kinda gross

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Bad questions would be flagged by other users on the article page or in the Answer Questions tool, or would be deleted in Q&A Patrol when the question got answered. So I don’t really see a need for something like this, namely because it’s not our last level of quality control like RCP is.:slight_smile:

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Yeah, I guess technically. But once I found like a hundred questions on an article and half of them were bad.

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Yeah that’s why I wanted a Question Coach because there are a lot of bad questions on some articles

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Coach doesn’t actually give you new edits in RCP - they’re old edits that have been loaded into the Coach code and are fake-timestamped to look new. (I’m not joking when I say someone once told me they got a Coach edit from someone who died years ago.) So Coach is really just a teaching tool - you’re not actually reviewing anything when those edits come up. Actual patrolling is dealt with outside of Coach. The same would apply with unanswered questions if this were to be implemented - you wouldn’t actually be doing anything.:slight_smile:

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Yeah, @anon74718567 has good points here - Approve Questions is not the last level of quality control for questions, and Coach isn’t helping with current edits. If we had a way to detect if a question should be approved in real time, we wouldn’t need the tool:wink:

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