Timeline for answer to Focus on answering questions may help to mitigate the decline of traffic. And it *can* be coupled with making quality generic answers by underfrankenwood
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| Nov 14, 2024 at 18:25 | comment | added | user9317690 |
Asking questions should not be zero-effort! Most of you have forgotten entirely that part of gaining competence in any discipline is in learning how to ask the questions in the first place. I've seen people ask vague questions and get blasted. And then when other people ask large questions of a complex nature, they get a knee-jerk closure for things not being clear. That's simply absurd. Sometimes vague is the best they can do and they need guidance at that stage for closing in properly. Somethings complex is merely complex and not unclear.
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| Sep 17, 2023 at 0:49 | history | edited | Peter Mortensen | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Active reading [<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/don%27t#Verb>].
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| Sep 15, 2023 at 21:37 | comment | added | Ryan M Mod | "To create an account here you dont even need to confirm your e-mail address" That's not true, at least not if you want to ask a question. Unregistered users can post answers, but not questions. | |
| Sep 14, 2023 at 14:30 | comment | added | Gimby | The UI is certainly pro-asking, big shiny ask question button front and center, shitty search feature (well... shitty for finding answers to questions). That button has a long list of rules and guidelines attached to it of course which makes it more of a site which is pro-informed-asking, but yeah... who reads nowadays. | |
| Sep 13, 2023 at 22:24 | comment | added | chivracq | "The biggest problem here is the fact that Stack Overflow is pro-askers, not pro-answerers." Yep, exactly what I've always been saying since I joined 'SO'.... (First time I see sbd corroborating my stance...) Everything on the Site is about "Ask-Ask-Ask...!", "Not the Answer you are looking for? => Ask-Ask-Ask...!" | |
| Sep 13, 2023 at 14:43 | comment | added | Laurel | "To create an account here you don't even need to confirm your e-mail address" Stack Overflow has required a registered account to ask questions since 2011, which involves clicking on a link sent to your email. (Some other sites still allow unregistered accounts to create questions, however.) | |
| Sep 13, 2023 at 14:28 | comment | added | MisterMiyagi | @YourCommonSense There are many "real professionals, who could give a hand in improving canonical answers" here already. You can regularly find some of them lamenting on meta how the number of low-effort Q&A makes it very hard to give a hand in improving canonical questions and answers... | |
| Sep 13, 2023 at 14:26 | comment | added | Cerbrus | "if your question is gonna be closed in seconds?" Then you didn't write a decent question. "SO fails to lure real professionals" Are you seriously arguing nobody is maintaining canonicals? | |
| Sep 13, 2023 at 14:25 | comment | added | Your Common Sense | What's the point in being able to ask, if your question is gonna be closed in seconds? SO is anything but pro-askers. And although it's an open question whether it should be, where SO really fails tremendously, is being pro-pro-answers. While catering to wannabe answerers who can be attracted by intenet points, SO fails to lure real professionals, who could give a hand in improving canonical answers. | |
| Sep 13, 2023 at 13:49 | history | answered | underfrankenwood | CC BY-SA 4.0 |