Timeline for Are "basic" questions cluttering Stack Overflow?
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| Jul 11, 2019 at 0:15 | review | Close votes | |||
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| May 27, 2014 at 20:43 | vote | accept | Hoopdady | ||
| Feb 19, 2013 at 13:52 | answer | added | Hoopdady | timeline score: 0 | |
| Feb 19, 2013 at 13:47 | comment | added | Hoopdady | After reading a few peoples responses, I agree with most of them. I disagree with the few that say they are leaving SO because of this issue. I still see SO as a very valuable resource, and I think will always continue to be. I just wanted to voice my concern in hopes of bettering my favorite development resource. | |
| Feb 19, 2013 at 0:13 | comment | added | jmac | @Pekka웃 couldn't the community disincentive these questions by reducing the reputation gain? Something like a "question difficulty" selector or the like that allows users with over X rep to essentially mark the question as google-fodder rather than something of actual value? It would also give another vector for using algorithms to find duplicates, and for providing search results. | |
| Feb 18, 2013 at 23:29 | answer | added | kipkennedy | timeline score: 2 | |
| Feb 16, 2013 at 0:19 | comment | added | Dave Newton | Too many words. | |
| Feb 15, 2013 at 18:44 | answer | added | Brendan | timeline score: 5 | |
| Feb 15, 2013 at 17:12 | comment | added | Eliah Kagan | @Rachel I agree with your sentiment about basic questions; they're not inherently bad. But commenting to tell people what Google keywords to search is a great way to make those keywords point to the post with your comment (that doesn't actually answer the question or even link to anything that does), which is a bad thing. If you know where a question is answered and choose to comment, you should comment with a link (and/or, if appropriate, vote/flag to close the question as a duplicate). | |
| Feb 15, 2013 at 16:53 | comment | added | Rachel | I love basic SO questions, and don't see them being a problem at all. When I'm working with a language or technology I am not familiar with, I Google a lot of them and always pick the first SO question I see. The problem isn't that SO has basic questions, its that some people use SO as a replacement for Google, and prefer to ask a new question instead of attempting to Google the problem first. Usually I just tell people the Google keywords to use to go find their answer in a comment, or occasionally go hunt down the duplicate and vtc (depends on my laziness level at the time) | |
| Feb 15, 2013 at 16:38 | history | edited | CodeGnome | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Clarify OPs title and retrofit for the Q&A format.
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| Feb 15, 2013 at 15:25 | history | edited | gnat |
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| Feb 15, 2013 at 15:21 | history | edited | ale | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
fixed some grammar; added tag links; removed backtick abuse; removed signoff
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| Feb 15, 2013 at 15:20 | answer | added | CodeGnome | timeline score: 22 | |
| Feb 15, 2013 at 14:43 | answer | added | insertusernamehere | timeline score: 3 | |
| Feb 15, 2013 at 14:37 | comment | added | Hoopdady | @Bart I don't talk to people in the PHP tag on principle. Viva le Python! ;-) | |
| Feb 15, 2013 at 14:27 | comment | added | Time Traveling Bobby | @GeorgeStocker: Bah! You're just looking for a list of questions so that you can start another Friday-Afternoon-Question-Massacre! ... count me in... | |
| Feb 15, 2013 at 14:24 | comment | added | George Stocker Mod | @Hoopdady could you give examples and post them in your question? We love evidence here. | |
| Feb 15, 2013 at 14:21 | answer | added | George StockerMod | timeline score: 14 | |
| Feb 15, 2013 at 14:21 | comment | added | Pekka | ... on the other hand, aggressive closing causes grief among new users, often unfairly, and harms the friendly community spirit. Not sure what the right balance here is. But as it stands, I say we're going to drown in crap and more needs to be done about it. | |
| Feb 15, 2013 at 14:14 | comment | added | Pekka | It's an acute issue and one that is making it considerably less fun to participate on SO. However, the team is dead set against making it harder to ask questions, or incentivizing the finding of duplicates, so I don't think this will change anytime soon. Ten millionth and twenty millionth question, here we come! Probably 95% of those will be useless and duplicates, but... | |
| Feb 15, 2013 at 14:13 | answer | added | OdedStaffMod | timeline score: 9 | |
| Feb 15, 2013 at 14:11 | comment | added | Bart | You might want to talk to the people in the PHP tag. ;) (Similar discussion, not that long ago....let's see if I can find it). | |
| Feb 15, 2013 at 14:10 | history | asked | Hoopdady | CC BY-SA 3.0 |