Evidence-Based Guidelines for Writing Questions on Stack Overflow

Re:Evidence-Based Guidelines for Writing Questions on Stack ... by narag on Thursday December 28, 2017 @01:00PM (#16023632)

The people who are dissatisfied invariably ask opinion based questions.

I never ask questions in SO. To be honest, I'm not dissatisfied either, I just gave up. When I saw a question for which I knew the exact answer, I was unable to answer because... I don't know. I wasn't reputable enough to answer and I couldn't get a reputation because I couldn't answer. Or something like that, I don't remember or I don't care. I just google for answers.

So I would reconsider the "invariably". But that's just my two cents.

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Re:Evidence-Based Guidelines for Writing Questions on Stack ... by codinghorror on Friday December 29, 2017 @11:43PM (#16033883)

Completely incorrect, you can answer any question as a brand new user. As another commenter pointed out, maybe you meant commenting? Which isn’t answering the question, but leaving a post-it note on an existing answer or question.

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Re:Evidence-Based Guidelines for Writing Questions on Stack ... by posterboy on Thursday December 28, 2017 @07:59PM (#16026597)

you need rep to comment, so maybe the question you have in mind was in a comment.

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