Timeline for Is this refusal to accept an answer aligned with community standards?
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| Nov 13, 2023 at 12:51 | comment | added | Ramhound | @EndAnti-SemiticHate - No | |
| Nov 13, 2023 at 7:43 | comment | added | Amazon Dies In Darkness | @Ramhound Yes, this is true, but it is probably not in the best interest of a healthy community (it likely contributes to the reason why SE has the reputation it has). As part of a chat session, however, where you spend your time helping someone in depth, it is customary and acceptable (and often appreciated!) for the recipient of the help to say thank you (I always do). And upvoting helpful answers (and questions) is certainly desirable as well. I'm interested in a few of your thoughts on the topic... would you perhaps be open to a short chat in the near future? | |
| Nov 13, 2023 at 6:07 | comment | added | Ramhound | @EndAnti-SemiticHate - We actively encourage users to avoid specifically saying “thank you”. Commentary that contains those words is automatically deleted after a singular flag. | |
| Nov 10, 2023 at 18:21 | comment | added | Tetsujin | They may do - but it's below minimum post length ;)) Sometimes you can waste far more effort trying to feed help vampires who just don't know when to stop asking less & less pertinent, yet mesmerisingly attractive questions in comments. Eventually, you just go get more coffee & 'forget' to come back. | |
| Nov 10, 2023 at 15:13 | comment | added | Amazon Dies In Darkness | @harrymc Perhaps sometimes. But often it's experienced community members that show the least gratitude. I've had community members pull me into chat and ask all sorts of questions, and after spending my time helping them, they offer not even a simple courteous "thank you for your time". If they know how to ask detailed questions in chat, I imagine they know how to type "thank you" in chat. :) | |
| Nov 9, 2023 at 14:05 | comment | added | harrymc | In many cases it's not the lack of gratitude, but the fact that new users might be clueless about how things work here. | |
| Nov 8, 2023 at 15:54 | comment | added | Amazon Dies In Darkness | Gratitude is something seriously lacking by some Super User community members. I've spent over a half hour of my time (via answers, comments, and chat) helping some community members, and they don't even offer a simple "thank you" in response. Sometimes, even after they say the answer solved their issue, they don't even take 1 second to click the upvote button, which takes zero effort. The result is that I tend not to spend my time posting many answers these days. I prefer to help people who appreciate and value the time and energy expended by those of us who provide help. | |
| Nov 6, 2023 at 12:23 | comment | added | Destroy666 | @miroxlav I usually just send people to ask a new question, unless it's a very small detail that they need forthe answer to reconsider. | |
| Nov 1, 2023 at 9:21 | comment | added | Mureinik | @miroxlav I don't know if I would call it common, but it's definitely no unheared of. Sometimes, the OP understand the additional complications only after reviewing some answers, and attempts to refine their question. IMHO, the right way of doing it is editing the question ("EDIT: Alice's answer suggested that I do XYZ, but in this situation it's not possible because of reason ABC I forgot to originally mention"), but some stick to comments. | |
| Nov 1, 2023 at 9:18 | comment | added | miroxlav | Thank you for the insight. And what about giving additional requirements in comment to an answer? Is it common? | |
| Nov 1, 2023 at 9:16 | vote | accept | miroxlav | ||
| Nov 1, 2023 at 8:24 | history | answered | Mureinik | CC BY-SA 4.0 |