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Re:Asking questions is a skill: Lessons from 10 years of Sta... by gumoro on Sunday December 15, 2019 @02:24PM (#21798325)
Sometimes the asker is missing a concept, and it's not always impossible to comment about it and rephrase the question to make it answerable & more useful to keep for posterity. It's far from the majority of questions, but not awfully rare either. Some of those are worth salvaging.
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Re:Asking questions is a skill: Lessons from 10 years of Sta... by mark-r on Sunday December 15, 2019 @02:30PM (#21798374)
If you understand enough of the question to rephrase it, you probably understand it well enough to answer it too. Adding a middle step just gets in the way. I've answered questions like that, and it's gratifying when it turns out your understanding was correct.
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