Timeline for Correct way to handle users requesting scripts/formulae?
Current License: CC BY-SA 3.0
6 events
| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 20, 2017 at 10:04 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://superuser.com/ with https://superuser.com/
|
|
| Feb 2, 2016 at 19:10 | comment | added | Kyle | You're absolutely right, I have been encouraged by all the "not a code/script writing service" comments I've seen on here. Thank you for this post. | |
| Feb 1, 2016 at 14:17 | comment | added | Ben N | Good points. I've added a paragraph to my answer to sound less trigger-happy about closing. (I'm happy to say after reading this post that, if I remember correctly, I've never left a "not a script-writing service" comment!) | |
| Feb 1, 2016 at 5:47 | comment | added | Jonno | Your definition of enthusiast sounds very reasonable as well. I consider myself an enthusiast on motorcycles, but I can only go so far as to know how to fix one. I don't know how I'd feel if the advice I received was 'Go try and fix it, and once you've made a complete mess, we'll help'. A little less serious as formulas/code can be backed up and reversed though ;) | |
| Feb 1, 2016 at 5:39 | comment | added | Jonno | Thanks for this fixer - This has been my 'moral dilemma' I guess. On the one hand, I may know the answer and I can put them on the right path in a few seconds/minutes and it feels a bit callous to just state I won't help because they haven't passed a somewhat opinion based 'are they even trying?' test, but on the other hand I don't want to turn the site into a place where people no longer try for themselves and consider this a free service to get their work/studies done without any effort. | |
| Feb 1, 2016 at 5:34 | history | answered | fixer1234 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |