Timeline for How do high-reputation SF users solve their own problems?
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| May 8, 2012 at 1:14 | comment | added | wfaulk | This comment could be applied to almost all of the answerers here, but you stated it most explicitly: "During this process, the problem and its solution reveal themselves … making the question pointless to post." Well, it may be pointless for you, but it might help someone else. Post it anyway, and then answer it yourself. | |
| Apr 27, 2012 at 19:47 | comment | added | BMDan | Agreed wholeheartedly. 144 answers--of which approximately half are marked Best--3.3k rep, and exactly one question to my name. Asking my question in no way revealed the answer to me, which is why I asked it. Generally, compiling enough information to post a good question results in spotting the issue long before I get to the point of actually posting. That said, it's better to ask a malformed question than to pointlessly go down a rabbit hole, so I disagree with those who want a higher SNR; there's no such thing as a bad question (though there is a question not deserving of an answer). | |
| Mar 30, 2012 at 7:31 | comment | added | John Gardeniers | I have to agree Mark. Many at time I've had a half typed question when some other idea or approach revealed itself to my. I suspect this happens more often to those of us working on our own, as we have no colleagues to use as sounding boards. | |
| Mar 28, 2012 at 19:23 | comment | added | Mark Henderson Mod | @ChrisS - well, thats assuming that people a) are capable of critical thinking, and b) possess the knowledge to solve the question in the first place | |
| Mar 28, 2012 at 13:46 | comment | added | Chris S Mod | If the process of writing a Question "often" forced people to think critically about the components of their problem, SF would have about 17 questions. =] | |
| Mar 28, 2012 at 11:50 | comment | added | sysadmin1138 Mod | My 'virtual question' count is a lot higher than my actual question count for this very reason. I get about 2/3rds the way through writing up a good SF question when I find the answer on my own. Some times, the act of writing a good question is all you need to get the right insight into your problem to solve it. | |
| Mar 28, 2012 at 10:47 | comment | added | Lucas Kauffman | Ah yes the old Unicorn voodoo, only known by those in the secret order of System Illuminati. | |
| Mar 28, 2012 at 10:38 | history | answered | Mark HendersonMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |