Timeline for Are purely non-technical answers to technical problems on-topic?
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| Mar 17, 2017 at 8:59 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Sep 13, 2011 at 10:39 | comment | added | Lukas | If the question is legitimate and the best solution is non-technical there is no reason to force worse technical answers... | |
| Sep 6, 2011 at 15:46 | comment | added | Daniel Beck Mod | The context to a question is important iff the user added it to the question. Take out the part about the girlfriend moving in, and it's a different question. Then you're right. Quite often I have to ask What the ... do you want to actually accomplish? to find out that the user's issue is something entirely different, so we can guide him/her towards better solutions than would have been possible in the framework of the original question. These are still technical, but often don't answer the question as it was actually stated. | |
| Sep 6, 2011 at 15:42 | comment | added | Pops | @Scott, I would say "You should really consider redesigning your table for reasons x, y and z. However, to answer your question, you can store it like this: ..." | |
| Sep 6, 2011 at 15:39 | comment | added | Scott Chamberlain | To steal a page from the blog post I linked to in my answer. If someone came asking how to store a object array in to a single cell in SQL, would you be against telling the person to re-design their tables as someone else may come along that could not redesign the table and the answer would not help them? | |
| Sep 6, 2011 at 15:35 | comment | added | Pops | What if the next visitor to that question isn't there because of a relationship? Perhaps a family member or boss has asked him to clean a hard drive. | |
| Sep 6, 2011 at 15:30 | comment | added | Daniel Beck Mod | Software recommendations are more enduring than basic relationship advice? | |
| Sep 6, 2011 at 14:56 | history | answered | Pops | CC BY-SA 3.0 |