Timeline for Is code ever clean enough? - Can there be too many follow-up questions?
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| Oct 5, 2015 at 12:09 | comment | added | RubberDuck | I'm with @mjolka here. I didn't understand the negative reaction when I saw it either. | |
| Oct 5, 2015 at 12:08 | history | edited | RubberDuck | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 35 characters in body |
| Oct 5, 2015 at 0:27 | comment | added | mjolka | I don't really understand the negative reaction your series of questions has received, they look like good questions to me. That said, it is possible you would have got the same answers with just one question, as answerers often build upon other answers (even if one is marked as accepted). | |
| Oct 4, 2015 at 22:46 | comment | added | Vogel612 | The argumentation of this answer is not in line with how the SE system should work IMO. Also it demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding about how the site works. as such it would be bad taste to delete, but worse taste to not downvote from my point of view... | |
| Oct 4, 2015 at 22:32 | comment | added | rolfl | I believe this should be the accepted, and high-scoring answer. It is exactly in line with site policy, and is "the right thing". Downvoters are knee-jerking | |
| Oct 4, 2015 at 20:20 | comment | added | Mathieu Guindon Mod | I agree, code is never quite "done", and there's always something to improve. Personally I don't think we need to limit the number of follow-ups per se. Working on an answer. | |
| Oct 4, 2015 at 20:18 | comment | added | Maroloccio | I used the wrong terminology. I meant "marking it as accepted". Well, curiously enough the question is not a dead horse if somebody can see a way to improve it but those who do not are by definition not in a position to say "there won't be one". Remember: Perhaps the most important principle for the good algorithm designer is to refuse to be content. - Aho, Hopcroft, and Ullman, The Design and Analysis of Computer Algorithms, 1974 | |
| Oct 4, 2015 at 20:13 | comment | added | Mathieu Guindon Mod | "Closing" a question isn't "marking it as accepted" (a question is usually closed for being off-topic - closed questions cannot be answered). Also, editing the original question and appending new code is precisely the wrong thing to do. Imagine one question with 5 revisions and 5, perhaps 6 or 7 answers, all addressing a different revision -- that would be completely chaotic. You did the right thing by posting a new question. What we're discussing here is at which point the follow-up of a follow-up of a follow-up of a follow-up [...] is, well, beating on a dead horse. | |
| Oct 4, 2015 at 20:03 | history | answered | Maroloccio | CC BY-SA 3.0 |