Timeline for Huge knowledge gap, Should these be closed as they encourage long comment chains?
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| Mar 20, 2017 at 10:04 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jul 15, 2014 at 16:23 | comment | added | jpmc26 | Educating people for the win! Isn't that the point of StackExchange? To provide knowledge in a format that's conducive to finding that information easily, allowing people to self-educate with questions that already have a good answer in the future. | |
| Jul 15, 2014 at 12:07 | comment | added | Con7e | Thank you for reporting those answers. Even I that I wouldn't try such a silly think as opening an .exe with the notepad, didn't know all the details. The compression one was totally eye-opener! I don't agree with the OP. We might need more of these answers, not less! | |
| Jul 11, 2014 at 23:53 | comment | added | Doktoro Reichard | There are thousands of questions worse than the one pointed, where it isn't even evident where the gap is or if any sort of effort was put into the question to start with. It is these sorts of questions that should be put to rest. | |
| Jul 11, 2014 at 23:47 | comment | added | Jason C | @AthomSfere Additionally it helps others with the same question but without the knowledge gap. It's a loss to the Internet as a whole if a good answer isn't posted because the person with the question who just happened to be the one to ask it didn't understand the answer. Any remaining knowledge gap can be filled in with comments on the answer by one or more other people if they choose (meaning the knowledge gap burden isn't entirely on the author of the answer, the community can share it in comment form), as well. | |
| Jul 11, 2014 at 11:34 | vote | accept | Austin T French | ||
| Jul 11, 2014 at 3:53 | comment | added | Austin T French | @Mokubai good point. I think I was really caught up more in the endless comments that were obviously coming and wanted to head that off. A great answer that goes above and beyond would do that, and fulfill the knowledge gap issue as well. | |
| Jul 10, 2014 at 20:30 | comment | added | Mokubai Mod | This. Posting an answer that not only tells them what they need to do but also explains the crucial gap in their knowledge could be the greatest help you could be to a person. Have you ever had a problem understanding a large topic then someone explains a particular part of it and the rest of it just fell into place as a result? That's why this approach is sometimes very important. | |
| Jul 10, 2014 at 18:38 | history | answered | allquixotic | CC BY-SA 3.0 |