Timeline for What do we do with (very) long answers, filled with off-topic story-telling?
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| Jul 16, 2014 at 5:02 | history | edited | Braiam |
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| May 1, 2014 at 20:11 | comment | added | Jacob Vlijm | The last paragraph of this one (if it is not edited yet) is a nice example (apart from the formatting issues): askubuntu.com/questions/459133/my-installation-doesnt-work. I actually cancelled editing. | |
| Apr 22, 2014 at 17:33 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/AskUbuntu/status/458659937787596800 | ||
| Apr 21, 2014 at 22:24 | comment | added | Kangarooo | Nice example! I would then ask.. Why did you tryd changing cable and then would need whole story :) He is learning presentation skills with real life examples. Thats atorytelling or advertisment tacktics. And you can believe or not but its true. I went myself and you can do yourself too- theres a thing called Toastmasters globally where you travel learn presenting to each other on any topic. Its quite interesting if you know what i mean. :D | |
| Apr 21, 2014 at 19:51 | comment | added | Jacob Vlijm | @guntbert This is a brillant one! everytime you think: aha, this information is leading to the solution, but no, wait... This answer could take two lines. It could be worse however. Up to the cable "clue", his verbosity could be explained as illustrative to his struggle (although inappropriate in a Q&A situation). I searched today to find my ultimate example I faced a few weeks ago. It was really totally irrelevant, the man simply wanted to tell his story. The answer came as a bonus for those who did not give up on the way. | |
| Apr 21, 2014 at 19:33 | comment | added | guntbert | Not really long but long-winded: askubuntu.com/a/452341/117103, does that match what you meant? | |
| Apr 21, 2014 at 9:09 | comment | added | don.joey | Without an example this can hardly be answered. More information is generally better than less information if the information is relevant. | |
| Apr 20, 2014 at 21:39 | answer | added | OliMod | timeline score: 11 | |
| Apr 20, 2014 at 21:33 | comment | added | Aditya | No problem, just ping me whenever you come across such a post... Obviously edit it, I would look at the revision.. :-) | |
| Apr 20, 2014 at 21:30 | comment | added | Jacob Vlijm | @Aditya I'll try to look it up, problem is that skipped posts are not listed. I had an answer that outsized my screen, with actually an answer in it. | |
| Apr 20, 2014 at 21:28 | comment | added | Aditya | Any examples at hand? I generally find stories in questions, very rarely in case of answers.. | |
| Apr 20, 2014 at 21:06 | vote | accept | Jacob Vlijm | ||
| Apr 20, 2014 at 20:04 | answer | added | Braiam | timeline score: 20 | |
| Apr 20, 2014 at 19:56 | history | asked | Jacob Vlijm | CC BY-SA 3.0 |