Timeline for Explicitly indicate the reasons why answering a just-do-it-for-me question
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| Jan 7, 2019 at 18:30 | comment | added | David Carlisle | I am fairly consistsent on that see tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7733/… | |
| Jan 7, 2019 at 18:27 | comment | added | David Carlisle | @CarLaTeX I would yes, but it's not my decision. | |
| Jan 7, 2019 at 18:19 | comment | added | CarLaTeX | @DavidCarlisle We can delete this one: tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/430/text-building-blocks, then. | |
| Jan 7, 2019 at 17:42 | comment | added | David Carlisle | well there is an old meta question suggesting some wording you could use to suggest that a user improves their question, That is far from saying there is a policy of not answering them, and as I mentioned I don't like or use any of the boiler plate comments. If you haven't time to write a specific comment it's better not to comment than to copy some more or less relevant standard text. | |
| Jan 7, 2019 at 16:46 | comment | added | CarLaTeX | @DavidCarlisle I thought avoiding just-do-it-for-me question was a site policy: tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2763/… | |
| Jan 7, 2019 at 16:06 | comment | added | David Carlisle | @CarLaTeX no, we tell people to use article in MWE even if they use some fancy local thesis class in their real document so it doesn't give any real indication about that, and the situation with a formula is completely different, given an image of a formula you'd have to type in the expression to test an answer, but having as text provides the test file, so it helps write an answer. having a few irrelevant lines of tikz that are not going to be in the final answer doesn't really help at all other than saving you write an initial blank document template. | |
| Jan 6, 2019 at 23:32 | answer | added | David Carlisle | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jan 6, 2019 at 18:30 | answer | added | Skillmon | timeline score: 6 | |
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| Dec 1, 2018 at 15:18 | comment | added | CarLaTeX |
@Johannes_B An MWE with two \draw commands shows at least what documentclass the OP is using, other than s/he learnt at least the \draw command. Otherwise, let us say that any MWE is not needed, also to write a formula the image is enough.
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| Dec 1, 2018 at 15:04 | comment | added | Johannes_B |
@CarLaTeX I am not a fan of those questions. Buti have to say, that a MWE is not needed to answer the question. If I do a MWE with two \draw commands, there still is no effort from my side. A pointless MWE is still pointless.
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| Dec 1, 2018 at 5:00 | answer | added | Alan Munn | timeline score: 20 | |
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| Nov 30, 2018 at 18:28 | history | edited | WernerMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 30, 2018 at 18:27 | comment | added | CarLaTeX | @marmot You should report that to the admin, if you don't want to ask a question on that topic on Meta. | |
| Nov 30, 2018 at 18:23 | comment | added | user121799 | @CarLaTeX This is (sort of) fine with me, but really if we start discussing a code of conduct here, could we perhaps start with the really annoying things? A do-it-for-me question does not really hurt me, someone stealing codes from others does. Even more, if the someone then gets tons of votes. | |
| Nov 30, 2018 at 18:20 | comment | added | CarLaTeX | @marmot Eventually, what I'm saying is: you're free to answer, but please leave a comment to say that a MWE is needed. | |
| Nov 30, 2018 at 18:17 | comment | added | user121799 | @CarLaTeX ;-) Yes, sure. I just don't want to write this every time. ;-) And I can see how you are frustrated over the behavior of this particular user but I'd also like to encourage you to try to avoid mentioning explicit user names. | |
| Nov 30, 2018 at 18:16 | comment | added | CarLaTeX | @marmot Btw, I got the idea from an answer of yours: tex.stackexchange.com/a/459875/101651 | |
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| Nov 30, 2018 at 18:01 | answer | added | WernerMod | timeline score: 11 | |
| Nov 30, 2018 at 17:55 | comment | added | user121799 | @CarLaTeX I fully agree. I just respond to "I would like to suggest, when we answer to a similar question, to make a premise to the answer or comment the question like this:". (BTW, I did not downvote your question, rather I upvoted it.) And I definitely see how one can get frustrated over these questions. (Yet, if we are to discuss a code of conduct, IMHO there would be more urgent things related to "academic dishonesty" to be discussed first.) | |
| Nov 30, 2018 at 17:54 | comment | added | CarLaTeX | @marmot I said "I would like to suggest" not "I want to oblige". | |
| Nov 30, 2018 at 17:51 | comment | added | CarLaTeX | @marmot I said also "or comment the question" I think that a comment requiring an MWE does not harm anybody. | |
| Nov 30, 2018 at 17:50 | comment | added | user121799 | @CarLaTeX I am certainly not trying to prevent you from encouraging users to add an MWE, I am doing the same very often. I just do not want to be forced to do it. | |
| Nov 30, 2018 at 17:49 | comment | added | Werner Mod | @marmot: I agree with you though that I don't agree with this proposal... :) | |
| Nov 30, 2018 at 17:48 | comment | added | CarLaTeX | @marmot Yes, your link is related but I'm just proposing to tell that a minimal example is needed, otherwise the users think it is not. | |
| Nov 30, 2018 at 17:47 | comment | added | Werner Mod | @marmot: You're looking a bit far into a bleak future by extrapolating on these comments. We've been averaging around 60 questions a day for the last 5 years and somewhere between 70-80 answers per day. I confident people won't turn to Word, not would we have to close the site (for whatever reason). | |
| Nov 30, 2018 at 17:47 | comment | added | user121799 | @CarLaTeX I am definitely not defending this OP. However, I also do not want to start any answer to a question without MWE with a long discussion why I am writing an answer. | |
| Nov 30, 2018 at 17:44 | comment | added | CarLaTeX | @marmot I'm not saying not to answer to new users, I'm saying to explaining them that they should post a minimal example. Otherwise, you have the result of the comment I shown in my answer. The same OP was rude towards who asked him to post an MWE in a previous question. | |
| Nov 30, 2018 at 17:40 | comment | added | user121799 | @HenriMenke If I understand you correctly, we could just close this site, i.e. not allow new questions (since every interesting question has already been asked). | |
| Nov 30, 2018 at 17:38 | comment | added | user121799 | IMHO this is related. | |
| Nov 30, 2018 at 17:26 | comment | added | user121799 | To be honest, I do not fully understand the purpose of this discussion. If you think that a given question is not worth being answered, do not answer it. My personal reason for trying to be polite to those users is that I want to keep LaTeX alive. If we are not trying to give newcomers a start, one day I might be forced to write my papers in Word since arXiv is no longer supporting LaTeX as it has been become a tool used only by a hand full of enthusiastic users. | |
| Nov 30, 2018 at 14:09 | comment | added | barbara beeton | sometimes the way a question is worded is "novel", or gives a slightly different slant on an almost-duplicate, which might provide a more likely route for another newbie to find an existing q/a. in such a case i sometimes suggest closing as a duplicate, but give a token answer to save a newbie from searching through a long chain. | |
| Nov 30, 2018 at 14:01 | comment | added | user31729 | @HenriMenke: About 120 years ago people thought Physics is completed and there is nothing new to be detected, but then Einstein, Planck etc. appeared on the stage ;-) | |
| Nov 30, 2018 at 10:54 | comment | added | CarLaTeX | @HenriMenke Every now and then a good question still appears but, in generally, I agree with you. The best strategy should be avoid answering to similar questions, but sometimes I, too, give in to temptation. At least let's make clear they are not entitled to get an answer. | |
| Nov 30, 2018 at 10:04 | comment | added | Henri Menke | The main problem is that all the interesting questions have already been asked and answered, so it comes down to dealing with “template” garbage and “how do I draw this in LaTeX”. | |
| Nov 30, 2018 at 8:08 | comment | added | CarLaTeX | @ChristianHupfer Yes, that could be another reason :) | |
| Nov 30, 2018 at 8:01 | comment | added | user31729 | Another reason: "I don't like unanswered questions and want to kick this one from the list of unanswered questions". ..... and I don't mean myself by using "I"... | |
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