**Summary : We should be focusing more on the  "Why can X be/(not be) done?" type of questions, and remove some of the sNARQ.**

For debugging any specific issue with a person's computer, you need a *back-and-forth* approach to be able to iterate between different solutions, starting from simple to complex.

SU is *directly* opposed to that by discouraging **back-and-forth** in the comments. I think we'll all agree SU chatroom is not **THE** most helpful (please hold the flames) community of people *from the point of view of the askers*. 

These types of issues are best dealt with in forums such as [Sevenforums](http://www.sevenforums.com), Eightforums(http://www.eightforums.com) and other zillions of them. They have FAQs, multiple users, tutorials, and even a tiered system akin to a tech-support setup, where the simple stuff is handled by power users and the nutty cases by extremely-highly-experienced users or developers of tools.

Here on the other hand, it most definitely creates a million duplicates. Few of them result in solutions, because you don't get the handholding required when facing a very unfamiliar task. SU doesn't even greatly result in askers becoming more knowledgable *in comparison to the situation at good forums*. The community feel of a forum results in a lot more learning.

If you remove tech-support from SU, then you come to the "How Do I Do X?" type of questions. Here I mean those which are *not also* tech-support style. These *are* the best fit for SU right now. Granted, back-and-forth happens here also, but tech-support is about recovering from failure which happens in a lot more ways. In a properly working system, OTOH, rarely would a HowTo mysteriously not work resulting in back-and-forth.

SU doesn't seem suited for it at all. SU should be more about in-depth explanations about mechanisms, tradeoffs, little-known problems, and subtle pitfalls. *BUT* this heads out into the oh-so-dangerous territory of Not A Real Question.