Answer by toonarmycaptain for Mentorship Research Project - Results + Wrap-Up
I think the real proof will be in the pudding. Will the mentees produce better questions long term, becoming good contributers to the site? I'd like to see a 6+ month follow up to see how this...
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Congratulations to the team and volunteers on a prototypical experiment. There are ample users on Stack Overflow who participate (and answer) because of the fun and hunt of reputation and rewards and...
View ArticleAnswer by Sreetam Das for Mentorship Research Project - Results + Wrap-Up
As one of the mentors, I enjoyed the experiment thoroughly, and although most important points have already been made by various others mentors, I do have a couple of suggestions myself, which may also...
View ArticleAnswer by Travis J for Mentorship Research Project - Results + Wrap-Up
I took part as a mentor. Overall there was only one main difference which I saw in the mentees versus in the wild so to speak. Attentiveness.In chat, if we asked for an update or an inclusion, the...
View ArticleAnswer by Hussein El Feky for Mentorship Research Project - Results + Wrap-Up
As a mentor myself, I really enjoyed participating in this mentorship project, and I liked to guide people in all ways whether the question was blatantly off-topic or it had serious problems that...
View ArticleAnswer by Nisarg for Mentorship Research Project - Results + Wrap-Up
I liked this experiment overall. Primarily from the fact that most of the mentees who entered the chat were better off as compared to their peers (users with 3 or fewer questions, <16 rep),They...
View ArticleAnswer by Petter Friberg for Mentorship Research Project - Results + Wrap-Up
I also participated in this project, and I will submit my two cents about the project and what can be interesting for the future.Collaborative editingI had fun, but it was also time consuming,...
View ArticleAnswer by user308386 for Mentorship Research Project - Results + Wrap-Up
I found it to be refreshing and rewarding to participate in helping new users to ask better questions.A full implementation of this could benefit from:An automated system that only shows someone...
View ArticleAnswer by Ander Biguri for Mentorship Research Project - Results + Wrap-Up
As a mentor myself I was quite happy with the experiment and I do believe that it may work, however I have a comment in the quantitative results of the experiment.Certainly I do remember that we did...
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Mentorship Research Project - Results + Wrap-Up
Check out SO Podcast 117 to hear Kristina talk about the mentorship experiment.First, if you haven’t read the original announcement post about the Stack Overflow Mentorship Research Project, you should...
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