Timeline for Explicitly indicate the reasons why answering a just-do-it-for-me question
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| Jan 7, 2019 at 18:33 | comment | added | CarLaTeX | @Johannes_B Between reading 1000 pages and spending 10 minutes trying to do something before asking there is a big difference, imho | |
| Jan 7, 2019 at 18:19 | comment | added | Johannes_B | @CarLaTeX Look at it another way, from the OP point of view. Would you read 1000 pages of manual, even though someone read it before, a person who would spend only five minutes? And if it cannot be answered, with the info given .......... Well then .... maybe it can't. | |
| Jan 7, 2019 at 18:14 | comment | added | CarLaTeX | @Johannes_B Yes, it is a do-it-for-me-site, and it seems it's ok that way. I thought it wasn't, but from your answers and comment it doesn't matter at all. | |
| Jan 7, 2019 at 9:11 | comment | added | David Carlisle | @CarLaTeX no each question should be considered on its own merits, don't ask for an MWE just to educate the user, just ask for an MWE if it would help you answer the question. | |
| Jan 7, 2019 at 8:58 | comment | added | Johannes_B |
@CarLaTeX Not sure if you realized yet, this is a do-it-for-me-site. Look at all the biblatex questions that want to change a comma to a period somewhere. If you know the package and its documentation, the solution can be provided in two minutes. Time is valuable for all of us and i don't want to force people to spend time on something unneeded.
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| Jan 7, 2019 at 8:43 | comment | added | CarLaTeX | @DavidCarlisle Not needed for the question answered, but needed for a subsequent question. Moreover, I don't think suggesting people to keep a fair behavior is bad. | |
| Jan 7, 2019 at 8:08 | comment | added | David Carlisle | @CarLaTeX why is an MWE needed if the question is answered? | |
| Jan 7, 2019 at 8:00 | comment | added | CarLaTeX | @DavidCarlisle The problem is that if just-do-it-for-me are always answered, when the MWE is actually needed you got reactions like the one I showed in my question. | |
| Jan 7, 2019 at 7:53 | comment | added | David Carlisle | @CarLaTeX downvoting is not useless, the OP sees that even if the total count goes positive. Fundamentally I disagree with you that any comment asking for a MWE should be left. Such a comment should only be left if it helps you answer the question. Many questions need the clarity of a MWE to make an answer possible, but if you have made an answer then that isn't the case. As I tried to show above, whether an MWE is needed should be based on whether or not you need help to answer the question, not on an effort to educate the user on the ethics of asking questions. | |
| Jan 7, 2019 at 6:15 | comment | added | AndréC | +1 I fully agree with you. It is by trying to answer the questions asked here that I learn TiKZ and LaTeX. | |
| Jan 7, 2019 at 4:51 | comment | added | CarLaTeX | My proposal was not intented to justify what the answerer does (but, since everybody understood this, it is undoubtly badly written, notwhitstanding my clarifications). It is intented to let the questioner know that his/her question is not good, even if s/he got an answer. Downvoting is useless, since usually there are 4 or 5 upvotes in any just-do-it-for-meTikZ question! | |
| Jan 6, 2019 at 23:32 | history | answered | David Carlisle | CC BY-SA 4.0 |