Timeline for Let's Plan the Second Iteration of the Stack Exchange Quality Project!
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| Oct 30, 2016 at 16:02 | comment | added | user307833 | @WilliamKappler I think you are over-inflating the role of the individual here. It doesn't matter who answers the question - just as long as it gets answered. If you aren't the one who answers first, it's not a big deal. Move on. | |
| Oct 30, 2016 at 16:00 | comment | added | user343082 | @IanRingrose re: "it is about helping the person" I disagree. SE is about forming constructive and useful Q/A. Helping individual/specific cases is not really the end goal. Digging thru comments to find answers does not help make this a good Q/A site. | |
| Oct 20, 2016 at 17:22 | comment | added | user295616 | I tend to do this if I have a suspicion I have an answer, but either lack the time or interest to actually form it into a full answer, and know that posting that as an answer will end up with me pounded with downvotes. So I think @IanRingrose has something of a point. Fix the motivations for people doing this in the first place - or provide some alternative - which is easier said than done. It's telling you would rather have me say nothing than actually address the issue. | |
| Oct 18, 2016 at 14:52 | comment | added | user307833 | @IanRingrose You can help them (and yourself) more by writing a proper answer. If you don't, either someone else will answer, or you can write a full answer when you have time. Like I said before - it's not a race. | |
| Oct 18, 2016 at 14:32 | comment | added | Ian Ringrose | @Mego, it is about helping the person, even if you are not going to write an answer that will help google. | |
| Oct 18, 2016 at 14:27 | comment | added | user307833 | @KyleStrand You don't see the problem with blatantly disregarding the official policy on what comments are meant to be used for? | |
| Oct 18, 2016 at 14:24 | comment | added | user307833 | @IanRingrose Then just don't answer or comment. It's not a race. | |
| Oct 18, 2016 at 14:24 | comment | added | Kyle Strand | I also do this occasionally. I'm not sure how it harms the site. | |
| Oct 18, 2016 at 14:08 | comment | added | zwol | I do this a lot on SO, usually when I expect that a new questioner is about to get steamrolled by a hostile hivemind and I won't have time to write a proper answer before the post is closed. Fix that first. | |
| Oct 18, 2016 at 14:02 | comment | added | Ian Ringrose | Often a "link only answer" solve the problem, but I don't have time to write a full answer. Therefore I leave the link as a comment. | |
| Oct 18, 2016 at 7:52 | comment | added | user307833 | @200_success CR is the exception to the rule, then. On many sites across the network, moderators don't remove answers-as-comments, or worse, post their own answers-as-comments. | |
| Oct 18, 2016 at 7:50 | comment | added | 200_success | We do enforce the no-answering-as-comments rule on Code Review. A lot of it has to do with site culture and moderator activism. (The only people who can delete comments are the moderators and the poster.) | |
| Oct 18, 2016 at 1:06 | history | edited | user307833 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 18, 2016 at 0:53 | comment | added | user307833 | @NathanTuggy I agree with your suggestion. I wanted to add more elaboration, but I hadn't yet figured out how I wanted to elaborate. | |
| Oct 17, 2016 at 23:59 | comment | added | Nathan Tuggy | You may want to elaborate on the three main reasons for this: 1. helping the asker of an unsalvageable question; 2. giving an extremely partial answer; 3. giving a provisional answer the user is unsure of. (The last two partly overlap, and also partly overlap with legitimate troubleshooting advice intended to make the question more detailed.) | |
| Oct 17, 2016 at 21:47 | history | answered | user307833 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |