Timeline for Please edit 'library recommendation' questions with well-specced problems instead of closing them
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| May 23, 2017 at 12:35 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jan 7, 2014 at 1:30 | answer | added | Johannes Kuhn | timeline score: -3 | |
| Jan 7, 2014 at 0:56 | history | reopened |
Mark Amery Lance Roberts Josh Crozier ben is uǝq backwards Lucifer |
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| Jan 6, 2014 at 17:56 | comment | added | Jon Clements | We've also lost the fact that the OP is quite happy to be cracking on and working on it by themselves - so if someone does come across the post and decides to be nice and supply code... it might be a waste of that persons effort on top - ironically in the mean time the OP could have done it, put it somewhere, and then someone suggest to the OP a library the OP wrote :) | |
| Jan 6, 2014 at 17:55 | comment | added | Jon Clements | @MarkAmery I agree in principle - but I can't see how it's salvagable via edits. Going by I come here asking to see if anybody has already written this code (or knows where I can find it). If not, I will go ahead and write it myself. and It shouldn't be too difficult to implement, but am curious to see if it's already out there. is one close reason, to an edit that makes it looking like a spec and asking for code and then another that reads as "How do I do X... I did look (some name here)" are other reasons... | |
| Jan 6, 2014 at 17:53 | comment | added | Mark Amery | @random This question needs reopening for now because Shog9 has locked the original question being discussed with a link to this Meta thread. Feel free to edit it to limit its scope to that particular SO question if you see fit. | |
| Jan 6, 2014 at 17:44 | history | closed | randomMod | Duplicate of A borderline between on-topic questions and questions about library recommendation? | |
| Jan 6, 2014 at 17:40 | comment | added | Mark Amery | @JonClements I think we disagree on what StackOverflow should be, then. I agree with Shog9 that I just don't care about how much effort the question asker has put in; I only care about whether the question is useful to future visitors. Take this question, where I've previously upvoted your answer which helped me. Would the question have been any less useful to me if it hadn't included the OP's (ugly) first attempt? No - there'd just be less noise. | |
| Jan 6, 2014 at 17:34 | comment | added | Jon Clements | @MarkAmery Indeed... but then that makes SO a code writing service... If one wanted to do that, I'd write a parser library and publish it on pypi so people wouldn't have to look on SO for library suggestions... That'd be fair more useful than an answer on SO... | |
| Jan 6, 2014 at 17:33 | comment | added | poke | @MarkAmery We’re not here to write code for users though. We are here to assist them in solving their problems themselves. | |
| Jan 6, 2014 at 17:33 | comment | added | tripleee | @JonClements: if this saves the question from being closed in the blink of an eye, like it was about to, I think you just proved the OP's point (or I don't understand your definition of "worse" or "better"). | |
| Jan 6, 2014 at 17:33 | comment | added | random Mod | There is also a specific close reason for questions that are well scoped but show no attempt at a first go, or just saying they tried, but not showing proof of what answerers should not be repeating back to them. | |
| Jan 6, 2014 at 17:31 | comment | added | Mark Amery | @JonClements I disagree; I actually don't mind such questions at all as long as they're well-specified and the task that the question-asker wants solved is something that future visitors plausibly might want to do themselves, rather than some totally arbitrary puzzle only relevant to the question asker. Many highly-viewed and useful StackOverflow questions that I've benefited from were pretty much just requests for code. | |
| Jan 6, 2014 at 17:29 | comment | added | Martijn Pieters | Note that closing is not the end of the road. It's great that someone is willing to edit that post into something less 'I want a library'-ish question, but a good edit pushes the post into the reopen queue again. | |
| Jan 6, 2014 at 17:29 | comment | added | Jon Clements | The edit you made to the post has changed the question from reading as: "does anyone know of a library that does this? If not - I'll write it myself" to "I'm trying to write... here's a spec... How do I do it?" - which in my opinion has actually made it more a "can i haz codez" which is worse... | |
| Jan 6, 2014 at 17:26 | history | asked | Mark Amery | CC BY-SA 3.0 |