Timeline for Does my question and its answer (given by me) deserve downvotes
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| Apr 3, 2013 at 16:36 | comment | added | Ramhound | @VarunDotCuDotCc - If you don't like answering questions with answers "After I rebooted the problem went away" it means the original question wasn't well researched in the first place. I would agree a good question shouldn't have such a simple solution as restarting your system although some problems really do have solutions that simple ( and those questions might be good or bad depending on the question itself ). | |
| Apr 3, 2013 at 15:55 | comment | added | Oliver Salzburg Mod | @VarunDotCuDotCc: So you don't like answering that way and you don't like receiving downvotes. That would only leave us with the option of changing the community as a whole. That is not going to happen. The reason why your question and answer received such negative feedback was explained very well in KronoS answer. You'll just have to accept that we expect contributions to the site to follow a certain format. You're free to deviate from the format, but then you must accept that people might not appreciate your contribution. | |
| Apr 3, 2013 at 15:04 | comment | added | user157242 | I also don't like the idea of answering question bu using words like "I neglected to reboot after I changed the registry value. Rebooting resolved the issue." I think the answer should be like a question/answer. I don't we write answers in this format in exams. | |
| Apr 3, 2013 at 14:30 | comment | added | Oliver Salzburg Mod | @slhck: It has actually been flagged for that. I didn't move forward on it though, as I assumed that would have escalated the situation. | |
| Apr 3, 2013 at 14:29 | comment | added | Oliver Salzburg Mod | @KronoS: I didn't want to give the impression that every self-answer should be a one-liner :P | |
| Apr 3, 2013 at 14:28 | comment | added | James Mertz | @OliverSalzburg In this particular case I agree that the solution is quite simple :) but in most cases the solution won't be and the more detail the better. It's been my approach to answer my own questions as if I were a third party to the Question. | |
| Apr 3, 2013 at 14:27 | comment | added | slhck Mod | Perhaps the question should be closed as too localized. ("Have you tried turning it off and on again?"… reads like the generic Windows troubleshooting advice) | |
| Apr 3, 2013 at 14:25 | comment | added | Oliver Salzburg Mod | @KronoS: In how much more detail do you want me to describe how rebooting solved the issue? :D | |
| Apr 3, 2013 at 14:25 | comment | added | James Mertz | I actually disagree with this fundamentally as most times this approach tends to not lead to enough detail in the post | |
| Apr 3, 2013 at 14:24 | history | answered | Oliver SalzburgMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |