Timeline for How to ask questions about bad practices in Stack Overflow (or other technical forums)
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| Aug 22, 2014 at 13:03 | comment | added | Bart van Ingen Schenau | The statement I was thinking about shouldn't take more than one or two lines. So we are not that far apart. | |
| Aug 22, 2014 at 12:53 | comment | added | user22815 | I think this is a combination of TL;DR and not being precise and concise in the actual question. | |
| Aug 22, 2014 at 12:52 | comment | added | user22815 | @BartvanIngenSchenau I have seen questions like that. While they do state X is a bad idea, they tend to be more concise. The wordy questions where the asker writes a novel before getting to the meat of the question tend to evoke bad answers even if the actual question is good. | |
| Aug 22, 2014 at 8:21 | comment | added | Bart van Ingen Schenau | If technique X is really a bad idea, you better state that using technique X is a hard constraint for you, or the large majority of answers will be of the form "don't do that, use technique Y instead". | |
| Aug 22, 2014 at 1:09 | history | answered | user22815 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |