Timeline for Raising the Answer Text Limit
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:25 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://askubuntu.com/ with https://askubuntu.com/
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| Mar 9, 2014 at 16:28 | comment | added | Luis Alvarado Mod | @hbdgaf Well that's a very important question. In that case I would start dividing up answers but would have to edit questions to point to each section/answer as mentioned by Seth. Too much hassle to do a DB change just for this I would think. | |
| Mar 9, 2014 at 11:03 | comment | added | RobotHumans | One important question for stackexchange: Would it require a DB schema change? It's totally not worth a schema change stack wide for not breaking up your awesome answers in to multiple answers... | |
| Mar 7, 2014 at 23:45 | comment | added | Luis Alvarado Mod | @LiveWireBT Actually the Intel/Ati information was removed. I still need to remove another piece and only point to the most popular Ati/Intel questions for this, but I see/like your point there. | |
| Mar 7, 2014 at 23:25 | comment | added | LiveWireBT | Alternatively: Think of every question and (accepted) answer as a module in a flexible and interchangeable module in a solution chain to answer complex individual problems. Ideally the redundancy among answers should be low. Not every user should need to write his own essay or wikipedia-sized article to provide a good answer to a simple problem - it shouldn't be about quantity, but solving problems quick and efficient. At least that's what I would want if I were searching and asking. | |
| Mar 7, 2014 at 23:01 | comment | added | LiveWireBT | I'm not against your feature request, however I see 2 problems: 1.) Your answer has a lot of upvotes and covers a lot of problems in detail, but it is hard to find and to use as a resource for similar questions, which leads to users asking the same question in a slightly different wording over and over. (You're also covering AMD graphics, but one wouldn't read answers on a question that is titled with Nvidia.) 2.) I think that answers as well as questions should deal with problems in consumable and easily expandable chunks. Not leading to RTFM and "HowToAskQuestionsTheSmartWay". | |
| Mar 7, 2014 at 20:12 | comment | added | Luis Alvarado Mod | @JorgeCastro I would humbly disagree my good sir. I believe users find it better to cover most common problems related to particular subject in one answer than doing a lot of searching to find that one answer only covers half of what they are looking for (Which happened a lot in the past for questions like the one mentioned above). There should be more questions that cover in a complete way how to solve particular problems. For example askubuntu.com/questions/162075/… which handles pretty well all common problems. | |
| Mar 7, 2014 at 19:54 | comment | added | Jorge Castro | Man, those answers are too huge! For example you are trying to answer 10 questions in that nvidia answer. That's not how the site is designed! | |
| Mar 7, 2014 at 17:31 | comment | added | Seth Mod | You could try splitting it into two answers. Not ideal, but it works. | |
| Mar 7, 2014 at 17:14 | history | asked | Luis AlvaradoMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |