Timeline for How to discourage 'mean' punishment of answers?
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| Aug 21, 2018 at 13:53 | comment | added | John Dvorak | I have provide an answer or answers with "exercise for the reader" in there. I did get some negative feedback in the process, but the net result was positive. Remember the best part of an answer is the explanation, not code. | |
| Aug 21, 2018 at 13:53 | comment | added | Servy | @j4nd3r53n One person downvoting an extremely low quality answer isn't "being mauled". If those other communities refuse to downvote extremely low quality content, then that's a pretty big problem. If that's true, then apparently they're very unkind people as they have no consideration for the future readers of the posts who are being misled as to their actual quality because people were unwilling to inform them when they saw problematic content. That would be unfortunate if it's true. | |
| Aug 21, 2018 at 13:51 | comment | added | user400204 | I see - I must have misunderstood the 'Discussion' tag, then. I follow the Maths and TeX fora, mainly, and while I sometimes see daft questions, I have never come across somebody being viciously mauled as a result. Perhaps they are just kinder people. As for my experience - look it up if you care about it; but no, I haven't copied old code - apparently in one case it was because I didn't provide a general parser, but relied on people to experiment and do that part of the work themselves. | |
| Aug 21, 2018 at 13:43 | history | answered | John Dvorak | CC BY-SA 4.0 |