Timeline for How about providing question templates for typical questions?
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| Nov 8, 2011 at 10:11 | comment | added | dyasny | to cut it short, when you provide a ready set of parameters to fill out, it actually will appeal to the more lazy of us, myself included, who will need only fill out the blanks instead of working hard(er) on asking the question in a right way. I do not want this to turn into a flame war, and I suppose you did not intend to make things personal or to make them sound so condescending, so I'll just ignore that part of your comment. | |
| Nov 8, 2011 at 10:07 | comment | added | dyasny | Sorry to cut you in mid flight, when you jump to conclusions so willingly, but the reason I view a small subset of questions on SF is simply because I am interested in a certain subset of topics, where I can contribute and learn at the same time. Templates, IMO, address that exact feature of the human element you highlighted - they provide a ready to fill out set of requirements, instead of going back and forth, which is a convenient thing, and not an extra bother. Of course there is no forcing of hands in filling out every detail in a template, but from my experience - people usually do | |
| Nov 7, 2011 at 22:10 | comment | added | John Gardeniers | @dyasny, it appears you only view a very small subset of the questions on SF because you've taken an extremely narrow view of what SF is about. Ignoring the practicalities of getting people to use actually templates, they would only be useful for a pretty limited range of questions anyway. You have also failed to take into consideration the human element. Quite simply, humans generally only go to as much bother as they absolutely have to. I won't suggest another approach simply because I don't believe there is a workable and practical solution to the problem. | |
| Nov 7, 2011 at 9:24 | comment | added | dyasny | saying "this will not work" is hardly constructive. how about another approach, maybe a repository of such templates, we could point the topicstarters at, instead of manually typing out a list of command outputs and log locations? | |
| Nov 7, 2011 at 1:46 | comment | added | Andrew | See also: catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html (aka. a good idea that doesn't always work). | |
| Nov 7, 2011 at 0:10 | history | answered | John Gardeniers | CC BY-SA 3.0 |