Timeline for answer to How much research effort is expected of Stack Overflow users? by Anthony Pegram
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| Sep 12, 2025 at 8:20 | history | rollback | yivi |
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| Sep 12, 2025 at 8:19 | history | edited | user23737514 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 12, 2025 at 8:17 | history | rollback | yivi |
Rollback to Revision 47
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| Sep 12, 2025 at 8:15 | history | edited | user23737514 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 28, 2025 at 16:15 | history | rollback | philipxy |
Rollback to Revision 45 - roll back rollback. regarding the reason for the rollback, it IS good to initially repeat the long-ago title text in every case like this where the opening answer text is using the exact form of it.
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| Jul 28, 2025 at 13:53 | history | rollback | TylerH |
Rollback to Revision 44 - Answers don't need to quote the question to be understood. If that were the case, every answer would be required to do so, or would automatically do so via the system.
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| Jul 27, 2025 at 8:02 | history | edited | philipxy | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
copy content from question that is needed to understand start of answer
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| Jul 27, 2025 at 3:08 | history | rollback | wjandrea |
Rollback to Revision 42
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| Jul 27, 2025 at 0:34 | history | edited | Pat Myron | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
removing extraneous text
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| Feb 1, 2025 at 15:50 | history | edited | wjandrea | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
[Edit removed during grace period]
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| Feb 1, 2025 at 15:45 | history | edited | wjandrea | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
If we're removing the hyperbole, we need to remove it all, like "end of your rope". Minor style point: "that" usage should agree.
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| Feb 1, 2025 at 13:41 | history | edited | duplode | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Rollback to revision 36, and add the changes from revisions 38 and 39 on the top of it. The hyperbolic language was removed for sound reasons -- https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/386623 -- and it's still generating more heat than light -- https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/432857
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| Jun 17, 2024 at 22:59 | history | edited | wjandrea | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Add "show your work"
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| Jun 17, 2024 at 22:43 | history | edited | wjandrea | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Clarity/grammar: "serve you well ..." looks like "... well long"
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| Jun 17, 2024 at 22:33 | history | edited | wjandrea | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Add back hyperbole/satire: The way this answer was originally written implied that some people ask for too much effort, but over time that tone has been edited away. On the other hand, it also wasn't obvious enough that it was satire originally (tone is hard online), so make that extra clear.
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| Dec 15, 2023 at 22:48 | history | edited | Sean | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
The majority of "not enough research" questions I've encountered could have been resolved by pulling up the documentation for that language/library/tool. Seems worthwhile to add here, though I understand this isn't meant to be an exhaustive list.
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| Aug 26, 2022 at 4:20 | history | edited | Cody GrayMod |
Rollback to Revision 33: the vast majority of style guides do *not* recommend spaces on either side of an em-dash, and even if you prefer it, that is not a valid reason to impose your personal, subjective preference on someone else's answer. There is definitely no readability issue.
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| Aug 26, 2022 at 4:14 | history | edited | Andre Nevares | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Just two spaces between dash
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| Jul 8, 2022 at 22:40 | history | edited | CPP_is_no_STANDARD | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 27, 2020 at 9:43 | history | edited | Cody GrayMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| S Jun 12, 2020 at 2:33 | history | notice added | Cody GrayMod | Comments only | |
| S Jun 12, 2020 at 2:33 | history | locked | Cody GrayMod | ||
| Jun 12, 2020 at 0:28 | history | edited | Perry | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Reapplying an edit from the history to remove reference to a non-existent comment
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| S May 11, 2020 at 21:37 | history | notice removed | Cody GrayMod | ||
| S May 11, 2020 at 21:37 | history | unlocked | Cody GrayMod | ||
| S Aug 5, 2019 at 20:44 | history | notice added | George StockerMod | Content dispute | |
| S Aug 5, 2019 at 20:44 | history | locked | George StockerMod | ||
| Aug 5, 2019 at 20:44 | history | rollback | George StockerMod |
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| Aug 5, 2019 at 20:44 | history | rollback | George StockerMod |
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| Jul 2, 2019 at 22:26 | history | rollback | user4639281 |
Rollback to Revision 12
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| Jul 1, 2019 at 11:56 | history | edited | Dan Bron | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Add specific research resources and be more explicit about sharing the research in the Q itself.
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| Jun 30, 2019 at 11:29 | history | rollback | Cody GrayMod |
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| Jun 30, 2019 at 8:59 | history | rollback | jpmc26 |
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| Jun 30, 2019 at 7:47 | history | edited | Noob Saibot | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
How many times and in different ways do we need to emphasise the need to research before asking, and the answerer's time considerations?
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| Jun 30, 2019 at 7:41 | history | edited | Noob Saibot | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
How many times and in different ways do we need to emphasise the need to research before asking?
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| Jun 30, 2019 at 7:38 | history | rollback | Noob Saibot |
Rollback to Revision 19 - Beating dead horse
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| Jun 30, 2019 at 2:14 | history | edited | jpmc26 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
trying to replace the apparently controversial text; ending on "tiresome" is kind of abrupt
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| Jun 29, 2019 at 17:56 | history | edited | user4639281 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Rollback Revision 18
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| Jun 29, 2019 at 17:49 | history | edited | jpmc26 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
clarifying purpose of SO
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| Jun 29, 2019 at 17:16 | history | rollback | user2285236 |
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| Jun 29, 2019 at 17:08 | history | rollback | user4639281 |
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| Jun 29, 2019 at 16:46 | history | rollback | S.S. Anne |
Rollback to Revision 14 - Latest edit reverted previous edit
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| Jun 29, 2019 at 16:20 | history | edited | Noob Saibot | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Better English
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| Jun 29, 2019 at 16:09 | history | edited | Davy M | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
The new additions, while true, have a starkly different tone from the rest of the answer. Made a couple of edits so that it lines up more with original intent.
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| Jun 29, 2019 at 15:54 | history | edited | Noob Saibot | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Edited the accepted answer to include salient points from my deleted answer
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| Jun 29, 2019 at 15:16 | history | rollback | S.S. Anne |
Rollback to Revision 10 - Rollback to revision 9; this doesn't strike me as awkward
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| Jun 29, 2019 at 14:43 | history | edited | Passer By | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Changed awkward reading sentence. How-to-ask needn't be quoted formally.
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| Jun 29, 2019 at 13:57 | history | edited | Mark Amery | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Broke up big paragraph; restored a little of the poetry/hyperbole of the original answer to try and make an awkward sentence flow better
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| Jun 29, 2019 at 5:43 | history | edited | Erik A | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Removed response to a comment in the question that has also been removed
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| Jun 28, 2019 at 20:30 | history | edited | TylerH | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
added a key point; not everyone's rope is the same length, unfortunately
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| Jun 28, 2019 at 18:45 | history | rollback | user4639281 |
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| Jun 28, 2019 at 17:52 | history | edited | user10677470 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 28, 2019 at 17:37 | history | edited | TrebledJ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Revised section based on updated question; the "quoted comment" was removed
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| Jun 28, 2019 at 17:31 | history | edited | user3956566 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 28, 2019 at 17:24 | history | edited | Shog9StaffMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
reduce hyperbole, add useful information
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| Jun 28, 2019 at 16:38 | history | edited | user3956566 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Made it more suitable for a faq
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| Jun 28, 2019 at 15:37 | history | undeleted | UndoMod | ||
| Jun 26, 2019 at 14:23 | history | deleted | CommunityBot | via Vote | |
| May 25, 2019 at 14:20 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by user3956566 | ||
| Sep 5, 2013 at 18:46 | vote | accept | Anderson Green | ||
| May 30, 2013 at 15:39 | history | answered | Anthony Pegram | CC BY-SA 3.0 |