Timeline for Is superuser unfriendly to beginners? & How to help beginners understand
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| Mar 20, 2017 at 10:04 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://superuser.com/ with https://superuser.com/
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| Sep 2, 2015 at 17:50 | comment | added | Tim | I'm not sure about rude, but I've experienced first hand that some certainly lack any sense of humor. | |
| Aug 20, 2015 at 14:44 | answer | added | oliverbarnes | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 3, 2015 at 20:45 | answer | added | john v kumpf | timeline score: 5 | |
| Aug 3, 2015 at 20:36 | history | edited | Gaius Augustus | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 3, 2015 at 12:07 | comment | added | Ramhound | What might be the problem is that your goals might not align with the person attempting to answer questions. I know my goal when I answer a question, is to answer the question, and I provide the information in order to do so. Now how detailed I go into the solution depends on the question itself. Telling somebody that something is not on topic, or the question should be asked at a different site, is not actually being rude. What is rude is getting upset because I paste a generic response, indicating that fact, and trying to argue with that fact. | |
| Jul 28, 2015 at 13:01 | answer | added | Francisco Tapia | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jul 24, 2015 at 20:23 | comment | added | barlop | -1 for not giving any examples, even after people have written answers pointing out that you haven't given examples, you never improved your question | |
| Jul 23, 2015 at 20:20 | answer | added | Excellll | timeline score: 9 | |
| Jul 23, 2015 at 19:37 | history | edited | Gaius Augustus | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Changed CS to Computer Science for clarity. Changed StackOverflow to StackExchange (the body of sites)
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| Jul 23, 2015 at 17:49 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/super_user/status/624275072052776960 | ||
| Jul 23, 2015 at 16:43 | comment | added | Dave | Good point by @jandoggen.... We are encouraged to keep posts short and sweet. Removing thanks, please, hi etc is part of it | |
| Jul 23, 2015 at 16:27 | comment | added | SarahofGaia | @Dave: I think they were using "CS" to mean "Computer Science". | |
| Jul 23, 2015 at 15:38 | comment | added | Jan Doggen | And please do not confuse a "comment that only states facts/opinions without saying please" with rude. That is a interpretation people make: they feel corrected, misunderstood etc and then conclude rude without really reading what's there. You probably have examples of comments that are indeed rude, but you also have confirmation bias. | |
| Jul 23, 2015 at 15:24 | answer | added | Dmitry Grigoryev | timeline score: 9 | |
| Jul 23, 2015 at 9:36 | comment | added | Léo Lam | There is only one Stack Overflow, which is the site for programming questions. You probably meant Stack Exchange which is the whole network. (So that means Super User (note the space) is a SE site, not a SO site.) | |
| Jul 23, 2015 at 9:16 | comment | added | Dave | but actually it was a good thing... Providing no one was rude (swearing/agression etc) but being told you're not making the question clear, and that you don't appear to have done any research isn't a bad thing. I have answered questions, taking minutes/hours to get an answer to post it to then be told by the OP they'd already tried it!! Get used to it but don't like the comments/down votes get you down, take them with a pinch of salt. Instead, consider fixing the question and get an answer. You'll end up with better questions, which means more/better answers (usually) :) | |
| Jul 23, 2015 at 9:14 | comment | added | Dave | You say you're knew to CS... What is CS? C#? Photoshop Creative Suite? A typo for CSS? How would you feel if I said help me with the OTT FFK please... Now, I'm trying to be over the top here to make the point. I genuinely have no idea what CS is, I'd now have to waste time asking you to clarify it (or some one else will) despite it being something which should be obvious. There is a huge learning curve in askign questions, but I don't believe any site is not guilty of this - I've written excellent questions to realise that actually, I'd missed out lots of detail. And I've been 'attacked' | |
| Jul 22, 2015 at 20:18 | comment | added | fixer1234 | (cont'd) (don't tag every word in the question). Only a few tags are needed. 4) Length: Concise is great, but include information you can identify as relevant to understanding the problem. Organization is important in a long question. Put the actual question near the beginning. Break into paragraphs. Use headings. 5) You're trying to attract answerers, so be polite, yourself, even dealing with rude comments. Ignore them or ask nicely for clarification. Use them as feedback on additional information to include in the question. | |
| Jul 22, 2015 at 20:17 | comment | added | fixer1234 | Not much to add to allquixotic's excellent answer except to address a couple of your specific questions. 1) It doesn't hurt to request an answer suitable for a beginner. Thanks are clutter. 2) Comments requesting clarification on existing answers are a good 1st step (note the age of the post and click on the author to see if they are still around). If it's an old post and the author isn't active, ask a new question. 3) Tags are to attract users who follow specific subjects. Identify the subject areas of expertise needed to answer and use those tags (cont'd) | |
| Jul 22, 2015 at 17:54 | answer | added | allquixotic | timeline score: 58 | |
| Jul 22, 2015 at 17:00 | history | asked | Gaius Augustus | CC BY-SA 3.0 |