Judging by the way the question is phrased, and by the fact that you said "if both are equal" I think you mean to ask "why the disparity"--as in why the difference--and not "why the parity"--as in why the equality.
Now if you really do mean why the disparity, then I'll tell you that I've also consisered this a few times. And in fact it was one of the first things I considered when I started blogging on musing three days ago. What I noticed, you see, was the relatively lower qualities of the questions compared to the answers. And I could only assume that this disparity has something to do with it.
So I asked a question on it then at the time, and found that most musers were comfortable with the difference. Their argument then basically was that:
1. Answers take longer to write than questions.
2. Answers are more important.
3. Questions doesn't reaquire much thoughts.
Now I'd like to respectfully disagree with all these to an extent. Yes answers take longer to write, but surely length is not the only important criteria in determining quality. I'll have you know that in fact questions may require even more thought to injected in its conception, phrasing, and execution than even some answers. Really just because something is just two sentences long doesn't mean ruminating on it hasn't caused more deep thought than some verbose circumlocution that might not even mean a thing. Knowing how to put things concisely and compactly is a lot harder than writing a million words that mean nothing!
And finally, are answers really more important on musing than the questions? Of course not!
Without the questions there is no such thing as the answers. Imagine a scenerio where everyone on musing decides that because it is more rewarding to write long answers we stop asking questions. What happens? The platform dries up and nobody can write any answer.
Also, the qualities of the question matter a lot. If the platform is ever going to be worth something, people must ask the kinds of questions that will bring similar people who has that kind of question. For example I found out about Quora not by going on the site myself and asking a question. But by coming across a question that I had that was already asked by a person on quora in a Google search.
It is a good thing now that to view a question on steemit you must come to musing.io, because if a question on musing show up in Google searches as a steemit blog, then inquirers can follow the steemit link to musing.io. But imagine if all we have here is questions about what color the sky is.
Yes, no question is really useless if you think about it, but certainly you'd agree that some questions are more important and more relevant than some.
Which is what brings me to my main point:
I'm not saying questions should receive as much rewards as answers. Like I said there really are some brilliant answers here that deserve a lot more than questions, BUT what I'm asking for is more of a disparity in the amount of upvote given to good questions relative to the ones that are not as good.
Lets say a really good question gets $1.5, an average one gets about $0.45 and a not so good question gets nothing. Musers who see this disparity will be motivated to ask the good questions. And they will be motivated not even because of the high rewards ($1.5 isn't so high) but because of the high disparity, the difference, between the good question and the not-so-good ones. Why settle for 0 when you can get 1.5.
Luckily I came across something on @jonching's page that seems to suggest that he doesn't disparage the importance of questions like most musers. Hopefully along the line we get to see more high quality questions and even higher quality answers.
Thanks for your reply. What I meant was not for all questions the rewards should be the same but at-least question which do require a thought process involved should get rewarded much higher. Thanks for your valuable inputs.
Well that's the thing, both of them aren't equal. Think about it this way, questions are like problems and these problems have to be solved. Finding the solution to a problem is far more important than actually having a problem isn't it?
On musing, questions are valued just as much as answers, but the key difference is that questions don't require you to think and possibly do some form of research before you drop it on musing. They are born out of curiosity and a longing for knowledge, with hopes that somebody else has the knowledge that you seek.
Of course musing on its own wouldn't exist if people don't ask questions so I guess that's why questions get upvoted as well, but the main aim of musing is to help people find answers to questions that they couldn't find elsewhere.
To put it simply, when you drop a question on musing, you're basically looking for help, and when people answer your question its basically like as if they've rendered a service to you. At this point, who's supposed to earn more, the person who needs a service or the person who renders the service?
Thanks for the reply but I think good questions do require a thinking process. I, understand sometime questions are random thought but if a questions is well framed and has an intrinsic meaning it does require thinking.
This question you asked was the one of the questions I asked on musing when I kept seeing answers get upvoted and not questions. I figured questions should be more important because without questions there won't be answers. As true as that might be I got some responses that changed my mindset about it.
Musing.io is a place where people come to find answers to their questions. What this simply means is that musing is existing today because people have seen that they can get answers to their questions no matter how technical or silly it may be. Imagine the first 100 users on this platform just asked questions and no one answered do you think the platform will be this grown by now? I seriously doubt if it will still exist.
Questions is a quest for knowledge while answers are knowledge provided. Anyone can ask questions but not everyone can provide answers. Giving answer to questions requires high level of intelligence, experience, research, thinking, residual knowledge and what have you. Answers are well thought out before being provided but questions can be asked without giving it much thought.
Both are important but both are not equal. It is only fair to reward answers more than questions. Compare the time it took me to type this answer to the time it took you to ask that question. I'm sure you would agree with me.
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Judging by the way the question is phrased, and by the fact that you said "if both are equal" I think you mean to ask "why the disparity"--as in why the difference--and not "why the parity"--as in why the equality.
Now if you really do mean why the disparity, then I'll tell you that I've also consisered this a few times. And in fact it was one of the first things I considered when I started blogging on musing three days ago. What I noticed, you see, was the relatively lower qualities of the questions compared to the answers. And I could only assume that this disparity has something to do with it.
So I asked a question on it then at the time, and found that most musers were comfortable with the difference. Their argument then basically was that:
1. Answers take longer to write than questions.
2. Answers are more important.
3. Questions doesn't reaquire much thoughts.
Now I'd like to respectfully disagree with all these to an extent. Yes answers take longer to write, but surely length is not the only important criteria in determining quality. I'll have you know that in fact questions may require even more thought to injected in its conception, phrasing, and execution than even some answers. Really just because something is just two sentences long doesn't mean ruminating on it hasn't caused more deep thought than some verbose circumlocution that might not even mean a thing. Knowing how to put things concisely and compactly is a lot harder than writing a million words that mean nothing!
And finally, are answers really more important on musing than the questions? Of course not!
Without the questions there is no such thing as the answers. Imagine a scenerio where everyone on musing decides that because it is more rewarding to write long answers we stop asking questions. What happens? The platform dries up and nobody can write any answer.
Also, the qualities of the question matter a lot. If the platform is ever going to be worth something, people must ask the kinds of questions that will bring similar people who has that kind of question. For example I found out about Quora not by going on the site myself and asking a question. But by coming across a question that I had that was already asked by a person on quora in a Google search.
It is a good thing now that to view a question on steemit you must come to musing.io, because if a question on musing show up in Google searches as a steemit blog, then inquirers can follow the steemit link to musing.io. But imagine if all we have here is questions about what color the sky is.
Yes, no question is really useless if you think about it, but certainly you'd agree that some questions are more important and more relevant than some.
Which is what brings me to my main point:
I'm not saying questions should receive as much rewards as answers. Like I said there really are some brilliant answers here that deserve a lot more than questions, BUT what I'm asking for is more of a disparity in the amount of upvote given to good questions relative to the ones that are not as good.
Lets say a really good question gets $1.5, an average one gets about $0.45 and a not so good question gets nothing. Musers who see this disparity will be motivated to ask the good questions. And they will be motivated not even because of the high rewards ($1.5 isn't so high) but because of the high disparity, the difference, between the good question and the not-so-good ones. Why settle for 0 when you can get 1.5.
Luckily I came across something on @jonching's page that seems to suggest that he doesn't disparage the importance of questions like most musers. Hopefully along the line we get to see more high quality questions and even higher quality answers.
Cheers.
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Thanks for your reply. What I meant was not for all questions the rewards should be the same but at-least question which do require a thought process involved should get rewarded much higher. Thanks for your valuable inputs.
Yes.If it is a good question I agree but then other questions shouldn't be rewarded if they are sub par.
Well that's the thing, both of them aren't equal. Think about it this way, questions are like problems and these problems have to be solved. Finding the solution to a problem is far more important than actually having a problem isn't it?
On musing, questions are valued just as much as answers, but the key difference is that questions don't require you to think and possibly do some form of research before you drop it on musing. They are born out of curiosity and a longing for knowledge, with hopes that somebody else has the knowledge that you seek.
Of course musing on its own wouldn't exist if people don't ask questions so I guess that's why questions get upvoted as well, but the main aim of musing is to help people find answers to questions that they couldn't find elsewhere.
To put it simply, when you drop a question on musing, you're basically looking for help, and when people answer your question its basically like as if they've rendered a service to you. At this point, who's supposed to earn more, the person who needs a service or the person who renders the service?
I hope this helps.
Thanks for the reply but I think good questions do require a thinking process. I, understand sometime questions are random thought but if a questions is well framed and has an intrinsic meaning it does require thinking.
This question you asked was the one of the questions I asked on musing when I kept seeing answers get upvoted and not questions. I figured questions should be more important because without questions there won't be answers. As true as that might be I got some responses that changed my mindset about it.
Musing.io is a place where people come to find answers to their questions. What this simply means is that musing is existing today because people have seen that they can get answers to their questions no matter how technical or silly it may be. Imagine the first 100 users on this platform just asked questions and no one answered do you think the platform will be this grown by now? I seriously doubt if it will still exist.
Questions is a quest for knowledge while answers are knowledge provided. Anyone can ask questions but not everyone can provide answers. Giving answer to questions requires high level of intelligence, experience, research, thinking, residual knowledge and what have you. Answers are well thought out before being provided but questions can be asked without giving it much thought.
Both are important but both are not equal. It is only fair to reward answers more than questions. Compare the time it took me to type this answer to the time it took you to ask that question. I'm sure you would agree with me.
Thank you.