Timeline for What do we do with ask-and-answered questions?
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| Aug 26, 2010 at 13:24 | comment | added | Travis Northcutt | @mike - Kind of sounds like we need a "best of WP answers" tag reserved for the best questions and answers. Maybe one that only mods can apply. Not sure how that would work, though. And if it were a tag, I guess it could only be applied to questions, not answers. | |
| Aug 25, 2010 at 18:36 | comment | added | MikeSchinkel | @tnorthcutt - Yes, I'm moderating my views on this. One thing I'm not finding with StackExchange, and that's disappointing, is a way to segment out the great archetypical questions & answers and the random "I have this obscure problem" and "here's how to solve it." I can find nothing in the UI/mechanism that allows someone to browse the best answers. Eric's question is just a canary in a coal mine regarding this issue. | |
| Aug 25, 2010 at 18:33 | comment | added | MikeSchinkel | @Bobby Jack - Thanks. What I wrote originally wasn't contemplating questions posted because the poster already knows the answer and want to shares (which I have done) but instead @EAMann's original question which is someone who posts a poorly considered question then answers it 5 minutes later because they figured it out; they former adds great value but the latter adds very little (i.e. "the blind leading the blind") It was my bad to not realize there were multiple use cases when I first posted. | |
| Aug 24, 2010 at 3:47 | comment | added | Travis Northcutt | I can see the benefits of this approach, but I do have some concerns. For instance, how would this approach handle Adam's scenario, where he posted a question, got a part-of-the-way-there answer, was then able to work out the solution himself, and returned to post a complete, "best" answer? I would be against that situation resulting in a lock or delete of the question. I also think if it's the best answer, it should be listed as an answer, not as a comment. | |
| Aug 24, 2010 at 0:05 | comment | added | Bobby Jack | Hi Mike - that was me. It was a little harsh, given that it was a response based purely on the fact that I disagree. As my comment below implies, I'm quite a fan of self-answering, because one of the original aims of SO was to create a wiki to store a huge amount of knowledge, and self-answering is a good way of achieving that. Since your update deals with that, I've removed the downvote. | |
| Aug 23, 2010 at 23:29 | history | edited | MikeSchinkel | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Aug 23, 2010 at 23:24 | comment | added | MikeSchinkel | Someone downvoted this but did not provide a comment as to why. Whoever downvoted please do me the courtesy of explaining the downvote. | |
| Aug 20, 2010 at 15:26 | vote | accept | EAMann | ||
| Aug 19, 2010 at 23:07 | history | answered | MikeSchinkel | CC BY-SA 2.5 |