Timeline for Should we answer based only on the information given or should we guess extra info?
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| Mar 20, 2017 at 10:18 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jun 1, 2012 at 22:49 | answer | added | Oliver Salzburg | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jun 1, 2012 at 22:26 | answer | added | Bon Gart | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jun 1, 2012 at 12:25 | comment | added | Journeyman Geek Mod | Well, i routinely ask for additional information, even in questions i don't intend to answer myself. The alternative is to just close anything that dosen't seem answerable. Considering that we're supposed to ask practical answerable problems, the end game should be finding answers for these. If someone asks a question about their computer bursting into flames with sufficient details, with pictures, i'd upvote that. | |
| Jun 1, 2012 at 11:47 | comment | added | devius | But when we guess or ask for more information aren't we turning into a user support site instead of a simple QA site? From my point of view the purpose of this site is to answer questions, not helping users, although that comes as a by-product of answering questions. I may be looking at it too strictly though. My problem with asking for more info (unless it is required to answer the question) is that it encourages questions of the type "My computer burst into flames! What did I do wrong?". | |
| Jun 1, 2012 at 5:15 | comment | added | Journeyman Geek Mod | When in doubt, asking is a good idea. Otherwise spell out the assumptions. | |
| May 31, 2012 at 23:26 | history | asked | devius | CC BY-SA 3.0 |