Evidence-Based Guidelines for Writing Questions on Stack Overflow

Re:Evidence-Based Guidelines for Writing Questions on Stack ... by user5994461 on Thursday December 28, 2017 @12:15PM (#16023301)

>>> any good SO question often has three solid viable answers

the first viable answer is giving you the solution, except it doesn't work because the API has changed many years ago.

the second viable answer is telling you that you don't want to do that and it's certainly wrong to try.

the third viable answer is a guy advertising to use another library for just that. (Just because you use C++ doesn't mean you have boost or Qt available but fair enough).

The fourth viable answer is a guy advertising for his own library to solve that same problem. It may or may not be shameless advertising. The github link is dead half the time.

The topic is closed. It will never be possible to post the right valid answer to that problem.

Answers cannot be edited. They will rot forever and mislead an entire new generation.

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Re:Evidence-Based Guidelines for Writing Questions on Stack ... by erezyehuda on Thursday December 28, 2017 @03:35PM (#16024702)

What do you mean by "answers cannot be edited"? They definitely can be, and not just by the person who posted it. I've updated an older answer or two.

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Re:Evidence-Based Guidelines for Writing Questions on Stack ... by codinghorror on Friday December 29, 2017 @11:44PM (#16033884)

Completely incorrect. You can edit answers as an anonymous user and have been able to since.. 2010-ish?

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