Timeline for Unanswered questions guidelines proposal
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| Jun 16, 2020 at 9:22 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
Commonmark migration
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:56 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/ with https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/
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| Feb 21, 2013 at 4:28 | history | edited | m_goldberg | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Added update in support of answers rather than comments
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| Feb 15, 2013 at 2:47 | comment | added | Oleksandr R. | Of course, this entails some risk that one's contribution might not ultimately prove useful, and you're certainly not the only one to have written an answer only to have someone point out its fatal flaws. While this can be seen as failure, it's important to remember that most answers will not suffer this fate. As Szabolcs has observed, it's become the custom on Mma.SE for every answer to be a complete and comprehensive solution to the problem posed in the question--but this unusually high standard might actually discourage people from making lesser, but still worthwhile, contributions. | |
| Feb 15, 2013 at 2:19 | comment | added | Oleksandr R. | I actually view this a relatively good outcome (although I understand why you might consider the experience a waste of time). The reason is that I feel it's better to have an answer than nothing at all, even if it's not the answer. A common reason for questions to go unanswered seems to be that people don't quite know what to make of them--perhaps they're unclear, or the issue in question is somehow subtle or surprising. Although incorrect or irrelevant answers will obviously attract comments/downvotes, reasonable but incomplete attempts may still prove useful to the OP or other answerers. | |
| Feb 14, 2013 at 5:24 | comment | added | Mike Honeychurch | It was more fortuitous that i happened to be online than anything else, although I probably would have come to the site within 24 hours. In any desire to supply answers to unanswered questions don't let enthusiasm cloud an understanding of what the question is about otherwise the "answer" provided my not actually be an answer -- as was the case this time. Which is not to say it may not be useful code but just that it belongs as an answer to another question where someone needs that specific code. | |
| Feb 14, 2013 at 4:06 | history | edited | m_goldberg | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Updated post with results of my experiment
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| Feb 14, 2013 at 0:58 | history | answered | m_goldberg | CC BY-SA 3.0 |