Timeline for How should we deal with Google questions?
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| Dec 29, 2014 at 15:38 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by LauraStaffMod | ||
| Jul 23, 2010 at 7:08 | comment | added | Tyler | When I'm posting a question, especially one that I suspect will be answered quickly, I try to check on the answers and comments coming in so that I can respond quickly. That includes marking an answer "accepted", which is a signal to other potential answerers that my question has already been answered, so I don't need them to spend time on it (unless they want to, of course). If more askers did that, it would help reduce the time wasted, I think. | |
| Jul 24, 2009 at 1:11 | history | migrated | from stackoverflow.com (revisions) | ||
| Dec 13, 2008 at 2:17 | comment | added | Bill the Lizard | "...just don't answer it then." Exactly. | |
| Sep 19, 2008 at 21:40 | comment | added | Jim | The more a forum is treated as a helpdesk, the less experts are inclined to participate. This has been proven time and time again. Check out Usenet for many examples. The resource that makes SO valuable is expertise, not the ability to type things into Google for you. | |
| Sep 19, 2008 at 21:23 | comment | added | Owen | This is a question and answer site. Not a "complex question, insightful answer that grows you as a person site." People should be able to ask simple questions with simple answers, that just may so happen to be spoon-fed. A lot of people just want to write code that works. Not be empowered. | |
| Sep 19, 2008 at 19:41 | comment | added | Jim | The difference is that in one case, the person is being proactive and finding the answer themselves, and the other case, the person is reliant on being spoon-fed handouts. Empower them by showing them how to search instead of leaving them a permanent infant. | |
| Sep 19, 2008 at 19:34 | comment | added | Owen | The point of the StacOverflow community is just to answer programming questions. I think it's ok if a little bit of it's time gets taken away by having to read a trivial question. Just my two cents. | |
| Sep 19, 2008 at 19:29 | comment | added | Nils Pipenbrinck | The difference is that if someone is asking a computer he just takes a machine some milliseconds of time. If someone asks a community with some thousand users he can waste the easily waste half a day of accumulated time. Why not use google at the first place in these cases? | |
| Sep 19, 2008 at 19:12 | history | answered | Owen | CC BY-SA 2.5 |