Timeline for When is a possible answer a comment?
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| Feb 26, 2014 at 23:11 | comment | added | Seth Mod | @Braiam Maybe I'm getting "1 correct answer" confused with "more than 1 way of doing that"? | |
| Feb 26, 2014 at 22:40 | comment | added | Braiam | @Seth if I bork my dpkg dependencies, would an answer telling me to "reinstall the system" solve the problem? yes. Would it identify the problem and provide an specific solution, no. Apply that to my previous comment about what I consider only 1 correct answer. | |
| Feb 26, 2014 at 22:35 | comment | added | Seth Mod | Ah, as in "at least 1" not "only 1"? | |
| Feb 26, 2014 at 22:34 | comment | added | Braiam | @Seth but ideally should have just 1. I'm not saying that there isn't several ways to do stuff, I'm saying that there is at least 1 correct way to solve OP question. | |
| Feb 26, 2014 at 22:33 | comment | added | Braiam | @Requist yeah, I know there are different ways to do stuff, but if the answerer doesn't have the security that it will fix the problem due the question lacking a critical piece of information and his answer leads to a cripple state of the system then who's the fault? The question or the guy that tried to help and just killed the pacient? | |
| Feb 26, 2014 at 22:28 | comment | added | Seth Mod | @Braiam The perfect question doesn't necessarily have only one correct answer. | |
| Feb 26, 2014 at 22:25 | comment | added | Requist | Are you using linux? There is always an other way ;-) It would be preferable to have all questions like that indeed, but wouldn't that mean we have to flag 75% of the questions to be unclear? | |
| Feb 26, 2014 at 21:53 | comment | added | Braiam | @Requist all questions ideally should have a single answer that solves them. There are some kind of questions that requires lots of troubleshooting and for that is comments/chat. Comments stays in comments and answers as complete solution of the question. | |
| Feb 26, 2014 at 21:44 | comment | added | Requist | That would in the example supplied mean that all the answers should have been handled in comments? Cause none of the responders could be 100% sure their solution was the solution. | |
| Feb 26, 2014 at 21:25 | history | edited | Braiam | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 26, 2014 at 20:31 | history | answered | Braiam | CC BY-SA 3.0 |