Fake submissions?? Huh?  By people who want to sell you fake Rolex
watches?

My objection is that the obvious question -- do you "know" maxima is
not
asked.  (Similarly Axiom, I guess).  But see sci.math.symbolic for
further discussion
of statistics.


On Nov 20, 3:07 am, Harald Schilly <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Nov 20, 8:04 am, Peter Jeremy <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > My initial comment is that making virtually every question mandatory
> > is likely to turn people off

I agree.
> or make them pick random answers to
> > questions they don't want to answer.


>
> The last year I thought this too, but turns out most of the answers
> were not random at all.

No, I just had to go back repeatedly and say no, I don't know about
this or that.
Annoying.

Right now there are 126 submissions, and
> really a lot of text to read about in various topics. I assume that if
> you take the time to write some sentences in each text box, you do not
> select random answers.

Not random in the sense of an appropriate distribution. Just random in
the
sense of who cares how much I know about linux or os x.

As  the old joke goes,

How's your wife?

Compared to what?

> Of course, there are also fake submissions, but they are easy to spot
> and of course nobody is forced to answer anything. It's just a process
> to take some sort of snapshot of the community, distill it, and feed
> it back to the community - self reflection and so on ...
>
> H

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