Timeline for Why answer a question that doesn't deserve a vote?
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| Jul 28, 2018 at 21:48 | comment | added | cfr | @AndréC I could try Welsh, if it would help. I once half-translated a logic programme into Welsh. (I never completed the translation. Hence the 'half'. Half of it was translated. The other half not.) | |
| Jul 28, 2018 at 16:54 | comment | added | AndréC | @AlanMunn If I could discuss in French, it would be a lot of fun to discuss with a logician, but in English, I'm not sure that the automatic translator remains faithful to my thought:( | |
| Jul 28, 2018 at 16:31 | comment | added | Alan Munn | @AndréC Don't try to argue with a logician! :) | |
| Jul 28, 2018 at 11:11 | comment | added | AndréC | @percusse, I trust you on this subject, I am too recently registered to know it myself. | |
| Jul 28, 2018 at 10:05 | comment | added | percusse | @AndréC If I remember correctly that quote belongs to LoopSpace (Andrew Stacey) | |
| Jul 27, 2018 at 22:31 | comment | added | cfr | @AndréC I agree that's a possible interpretation, but the question was, 'if A, why not B?' and my point is that A is quite consistent with not-B. That is, A can be interpreted consistent with not-B. I do not deny that it can also be interpreted in a way which is inconsistent with not-B i.e. which requires not-not-B. Although, as I say, even in this case, there are ready explanations for the disparity described in the question i.e. answers, unlike votes, are unlimited, and people regularly fail to do as they ought. But those are not required explanations in this case, given a plausible reading. | |
| Jul 27, 2018 at 17:10 | comment | added | AndréC | The quote from egreg can be interpreted differently: it can also mean that as soon as a question motivates you to answer it, then it deserves a vote. There are questions that, even if they are asked incorrectly, arouse our curiosity and make us want to spend time answering them. Doesn't that deserve a vote? | |
| Jul 27, 2018 at 5:19 | comment | added | AndréC | I quoted egreg, but in his reply, which I linked to, he quotes a moderator. tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6692/138900 | |
| Jul 27, 2018 at 1:58 | history | answered | cfr | CC BY-SA 4.0 |