Timeline for Possible Duplicate Post, How to reserve an answer?
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| Aug 5, 2018 at 16:50 | comment | added | Zanna Mod | @C.S.Cameron SE=stack exchange | |
| Aug 5, 2018 at 16:49 | comment | added | C.S.Cameron | @Zanna: What is "SE questions"? If my object was to help the most people I would be on a Windows site, discussing something other than bootable pen drives. | |
| Aug 5, 2018 at 15:45 | comment | added | Zanna Mod | I would not go so far as to say all answers have to be accessible for all users, but I do often say that SE questions are not primarily for their askers, and the more people your answer can help, the better it is @C.S.Cameron | |
| Aug 5, 2018 at 5:19 | comment | added | C.S.Cameron | I think we agree, The answer should suit the user, If the user likes the concept the answer can be polished to perfection. If the OP prefers another person's answer, there is no reason to go on with my answer. I usually try to understand what the OP wants using comments. Then If there is interest I post an answer. If I get an up vote or two I may start fixing spelling errors or add screen shots. It does no good to sent the OP off to a "duplicated" website that is not relevant. The user does not need yo know how to tune a car just to drive it to the store and back. | |
| Aug 4, 2018 at 23:49 | comment | added | Thomas Ward Mod | @C.S.Cameron Also not my point, but if you take a look at many of the questions being asked and their answers it helps to explain more than just "I use {software} for this", but to also explain why it solves the problem, and in some cases how to use it if the user comes back and asks for additional help. (That hasn't changed here in ever) | |
| Aug 4, 2018 at 22:57 | comment | added | C.S.Cameron | I did not realize that an answer to a question had to respond to all users, that makes things more difficult. | |
| Aug 4, 2018 at 22:54 | comment | added | Thomas Ward Mod | You assume that all users are competent. Revisit the thousands of posts that've been posted by people completely new to Linux entirely, so they won't know what is obvious or not. (However, you're missing the point I was trying to make, and this isn't the place to defend your 'example' answer, because I was simply trying to just make a point) | |
| Aug 4, 2018 at 22:53 | comment | added | C.S.Cameron | Once the OP opened Grsync the method is obvious. So, the answer may be short, but to a competent Linux user, not necessarily incomplete. It gives the OP opportunity to ask for expansion if he finds it interesting. | |
| Aug 4, 2018 at 22:32 | history | edited | Thomas WardMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 4, 2018 at 22:30 | comment | added | Thomas Ward Mod | said answer would fit into the "Incomplete Answer" category. "I generally use {InsertSoftwareHere}" without details on how to use it or why it helps are incomplete answers that sometimes get pruned by the community as non-answers (or comments that should be comments and not answers). The problem you're facing is you're going to have that race condition either way, and there's still no real "solutions" because reviewers might come along and delete your post with deletion votes before you get to expand it. | |
| Aug 4, 2018 at 22:28 | comment | added | C.S.Cameron | OK forget posting non-answers as answers, howabout if my first answer was "I generally use grsync", (this was part of my comment to OP). and then I expand my answer later? or does Ask have a problem with editing an answer to update or improve it? | |
| Aug 4, 2018 at 22:13 | history | answered | Thomas WardMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |