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| Aug 11, 2016 at 12:32 | comment | added | Thomas Ward Mod | @userDepth A large portion of the troubleshooting that goes on requires asking questions of the askers, and then acting upon information from it. Consider that there are literally hundreds of questions which information is omitted on by the OP, ranging from missing info about the computer to actual commands executed and output from them necessary to troubleshoot. In all of those cases, if the answers posted are asking for more information from the user, posting those as comments is the correct policy, as answers to questions should not be asking for clarifications - that's why comments exist. | |
| May 15, 2016 at 12:22 | comment | added | userDepth | @Zzzach... I believe that "Troubleshooting" is just a branding for "Asking questions". | |
| May 15, 2016 at 12:15 | history | edited | userDepth | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 15, 2016 at 3:58 | comment | added | AlwaysTalkingAboutMyDog | You have a point, of which you just presented (editing your answer). However, if everybody did this, then there would be many "answers" troubleshooting the problem, many answers asking for the same information. I think "troubleshooting" is very similar to "asking for information". Troubleshooting questions in the answers section sounds borderline inappropriate: http://askubuntu.com/help/deleted-answers. Note: I realized I made a typo in my last comment: Answers should NOT be asking for more information on the question. | |
| May 15, 2016 at 3:16 | comment | added | userDepth | @Zzzach... Update | |
| May 15, 2016 at 3:16 | history | edited | userDepth | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 15, 2016 at 2:18 | comment | added | AlwaysTalkingAboutMyDog | True, but a lot of what happens is "Did you check this?" or "Is this currently running?", so in a sense, asking for the info can cause the answer to be revealed, ie "The required program is actually not running..." may answer the question, but just as well could've been a request for info. Answers should ask for information. | |
| May 14, 2016 at 23:23 | history | answered | userDepth | CC BY-SA 3.0 |