Timeline for Feeding the vampires, should this have been answered? [duplicate]
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| May 23, 2017 at 12:35 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jan 22, 2014 at 5:28 | history | closed |
gnat Hugo Dozois Martijn Pieters Himanshu Lance Roberts |
Duplicate of Stack Overflow technology makes me write bad answers | |
| Jan 22, 2014 at 5:12 | comment | added | gnat | @TravisJ question suggested as a dupe points out that spoonfeeding askers of low quality / zero effort questions is considered legitimate and welcome under the current guidelines | |
| Jan 22, 2014 at 0:24 | comment | added | Travis J | @gnat (or others of the same view) - Can you explain why you believe there is duplication between this question and the linked question which attempts to differentiate canonical versus quick answers? I have no issue with a quick answer, nor with a canonical one. The topic I am raising revolves around whether or not questions of the type outlined should be answered at all under the current guidelines. | |
| Jan 21, 2014 at 23:26 | comment | added | Pekka |
This question should be downvoted and closevoted because you can get four Stack Overflow answers just by entering the question's title Jquery sort by id element into Google. Why some people think something like that deserves two upvotes, while loads and loads of great, well-researched questions stay at 0, is beyond me.
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| Jan 21, 2014 at 21:37 | comment | added | lindhe | I think a good take on this would be to edit the question to make it less "vampyric" (in this example rephrasing it to "How do I sort HTML table rows after a numerical value as id?") and then answering the bettered question, "Q&A-style" (although I don't like the approach OP is going for). | |
| Jan 21, 2014 at 21:10 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jan 21, 2014 at 21:02 | vote | accept | Travis J | ||
| Jan 21, 2014 at 20:22 | answer | added | user102937 | timeline score: 12 | |
| Jan 21, 2014 at 19:41 | comment | added | user213963 | There is difficulty when questions can't get closed as dups fast enough... bug that's a whole 'nother MSO set of posts. (Of note, the newly dup question does have a title that may help people in the future find the question and answer - its not just a "help me poor title") | |
| Jan 21, 2014 at 19:38 | comment | added | Martijn Pieters | In this case, the question was correctly closed as a duplicate. Closing the question prevents further answers, and is the right action to take. | |
| Jan 21, 2014 at 19:38 | comment | added | Travis J | @Mysticial - I guess I just did it reflexively. The link was to show authenticity, but I didn't want the post to be about this specific OP, but the style of question really. | |
| Jan 21, 2014 at 19:37 | comment | added | Mysticial | What's the point of whiting out the OP's name if you link to the question? | |
| Jan 21, 2014 at 19:37 | comment | added | Travis J | Specifically, the part about being an enabler. | |
| Jan 21, 2014 at 19:36 | comment | added | Martijn Pieters | @benisuǝqbackwards: What I mean is that posting a basic question without research doesn't make the poster a help vampire, not in my book. | |
| Jan 21, 2014 at 19:35 | comment | added | Travis J | @MartijnPieters - Hahah, no luckily it did not get that far. My view of it came from this well written blog post: slash7.com/2006/12/22/vampires | |
| Jan 21, 2014 at 19:35 | comment | added | ben is uǝq backwards | Do vampires have to do that @Martijn to you personally? If they badger the community by constantly posting vampirish questions then isn't that the same thing? | |
| Jan 21, 2014 at 19:35 | comment | added | Martijn Pieters | The question is indeed basic, but is answerable. Just downvote if you feel the OP didn't do their research, and move on. If other people want to answer the post, I see no point in preventing them from doing so. | |
| Jan 21, 2014 at 19:34 | comment | added | Martijn Pieters | My definition from help vampire seems to differ from yours; did the OP badger you with follow-up questions in comments, sucking the will to live out of you? | |
| Jan 21, 2014 at 19:32 | history | asked | Travis J | CC BY-SA 3.0 |