Timeline for Trying to be helpful ... it would have been a question, b-b-but
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| Jan 18, 2021 at 11:49 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://blog.stackoverflow.com with https://blog.stackoverflow.com
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| Aug 13, 2011 at 23:34 | comment | added | user102937 | I left a comment on the question. Case closed. | |
| Aug 13, 2011 at 23:31 | comment | added | brunnerh | @Robert Harvey: Good point. I would leave that to the OP, let him make some edits, tell him to ask for feedback, and reopen it once it's in an acceptable shape. | |
| Aug 13, 2011 at 23:30 | comment | added | user102937 | "How do i use SMTP with C#?" is not a question that would stay open. It's NaRQ: Too Broad. It would have to be fleshed out a bit more than that. | |
| Aug 13, 2011 at 23:29 | comment | added | brunnerh |
@Robert Harvey: I would have thought it's something lke How do i use SMTP with C#? (possibly with those other conditions), but the grammar in the original title is "a bit broken".
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| Aug 13, 2011 at 23:25 | comment | added | user102937 | There's not even a question in the title. I'd fix it myself if I knew what the question was. | |
| Aug 13, 2011 at 23:24 | comment | added | brunnerh | @Robert Harvey: I have, what are those problems in your opinion? (Only thing i can spot is that the question is only implicit and only in the title) | |
| Aug 13, 2011 at 23:18 | comment | added | user102937 | OK, looking at the OP's linked question, there are more problems here than just answering your own question. Have you had a look at it? | |
| Aug 13, 2011 at 23:05 | comment | added | brunnerh | @Robert Harvey: Looking at the question you linked it seems like a lot of the controversy is caused by the rep-system, this is really a shame, especially because a lot of regular questions may be a lot less useful for others. I would speculate that self-answered sharing questions are on average more useful. | |
| Aug 13, 2011 at 23:02 | comment | added | gerryLowry | @Robert Harvey ... i do not see this a personal blog; it's simply sharing; if i wrote a blog article, it would go into substantially more detail. in searching for a solution, i read quite a few blog articles and found very many of them to be far too brief for my taste. | |
| Aug 13, 2011 at 22:58 | comment | added | user102937 | Like I said, I'm inclined to agree, but this issue is by no means cut and dry; see here: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/17845/… | |
| Aug 13, 2011 at 22:56 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | @RobertHarvey That would be an SO thing, then. I haven't seen it on SE2.0 sites, or even on SU and SF. | |
| Aug 13, 2011 at 22:55 | comment | added | brunnerh | @Robert Harvey: Then they are in the wrong and should be pointed to the official blog, it's allowed and even encouraged. | |
| Aug 13, 2011 at 22:53 | comment | added | user102937 | @H.B Yes, but the community sometimes sees this as an abuse of the system, as asking "not a real question." If you already knew the answer to your question, why are you asking it? | |
| Aug 13, 2011 at 22:51 | comment | added | user102937 | @Gilles: I'm inclined to agree, but you know as well as I do that some members of the community (for whatever reason) dislike it when the OP immediately posts an answer to their own question. In fact, I've seen some people tell the OP in comments, "If you already have the answer, just put it in your question." | |
| Aug 13, 2011 at 22:51 | comment | added | brunnerh | @Robert Harvey: If you have a problem worth sharing it's likely to be a nail biter (is that an approriate phrase?) and as there are a lot of fanatics here surely some will dive into the problem and invest in some cases rather large amounts of time, time which might be spent better on a problem that actually needs solving. | |
| Aug 13, 2011 at 22:49 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | @RobertHarvey, H.B. I, for one, consider it basic politeness to share your wisdom as soon as you have it (and have the time to share it). If you know the answer at the time you post your question, post your answer immediately. If others have a better answer, they can post it anyway. If others do some research to reach the same answer, then by not posting your answer immediately you've wasted their time. | |
| Aug 13, 2011 at 22:49 | comment | added | user102937 | I'm having a little trouble figuring out what ethics are being violated here. It doesn't matter who answers the question, and everyone contributes their time voluntarily here. | |
| Aug 13, 2011 at 22:38 | comment | added | brunnerh | @Robert Harvey: I do not doubt that something may be gained, but it might come at a considerable price. | |
| Aug 13, 2011 at 22:37 | comment | added | user102937 | In almost all cases I've seen where someone has posted their own answer to their own question, someone else has weighed in with knowledge or wisdom the OP had not considered. | |
| Aug 13, 2011 at 22:34 | comment | added | brunnerh | @Robert Harvey: I really wonder if that is such a good/ethical thing to do, this potentially wastes hundreds of man-hours. | |
| Aug 13, 2011 at 22:32 | comment | added | user102937 | In addition, it helps if you wait a day before posting your answer. Nobody knows why; it's just one of the great mysteries of SO. Actually, posting your answer a day later makes it look less like you're using SO as your own personal blog. It also gives others a chance to weigh in with their own answers first. | |
| Aug 13, 2011 at 22:29 | history | answered | brunnerh | CC BY-SA 3.0 |