Timeline for How do we handle it when the asker's problem is just that they're confused?
Current License: CC BY-SA 4.0
10 events
| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 15, 2019 at 19:23 | history | edited | doppelgreenerMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 | I used to use commas way too much. |
| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:45 | history | edited | CommunityBot | replaced http://rpg.stackexchange.com/ with https://rpg.stackexchange.com/ | |
| Aug 18, 2014 at 12:31 | comment | added | mxyzplk Mod | Not in my opinion; as is already clear I don't think answers are the best place for a grand unravelling session of a person's manifold misconceptions. That usually requires dialogue and/or stabbing in the dark, both of which make for crap answers. Close the Q and use comments/chat for that. | |
| Aug 18, 2014 at 6:49 | comment | added | Brilliand | @mxyzplk Does his category #1 adequately describe the questions that should be closed? He does put more (perhaps too much) weight on the "don't close" part of the answer, but after rereading it a few times, he seems to be saying that questions that can't be answered at face value should be closed. That is, among cases where the asker is too confused to ask a good question, stupid questions should be answered, and non-questions should be closed. | |
| Jul 28, 2014 at 0:06 | comment | added | mxyzplk Mod | -1 the entire reason for "on hold as unclear" is for this. If someone can't "use their words" enough to get unconfused with comment and/or chat discussion, why do we want their question? To confuse later posters with a bunch of confusing questions with maybe-correct answers? | |
| Apr 24, 2014 at 21:01 | comment | added | SevenSidedDie | This sums my original thinking quite nicely, thank you. "We actually answer a lot of questions from category #3 already!" That point was a large part of my motivation for bringing this up: I couldn't figure out why some confused questions get forcefully closed when most go unchallenged and get answered without problems. | |
| Apr 24, 2014 at 2:50 | history | edited | doppelgreener | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 88 characters in body |
| Apr 24, 2014 at 2:21 | history | edited | doppelgreener | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 94 characters in body |
| Apr 24, 2014 at 1:54 | history | edited | doppelgreener | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 140 characters in body |
| Apr 24, 2014 at 1:45 | history | answered | doppelgreener | CC BY-SA 3.0 |