Timeline for How to discourage crowd-pleasing non-answers?
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| Feb 12, 2011 at 5:34 | comment | added | jmort253 | @Nick - Just like anything else, it starts with us. Don't accept one liner answers, encourage people to expand their answers, those are all things that you and I can do. | |
| Feb 11, 2011 at 20:12 | comment | added | Nick Knowlson | "Most of the short one-liners we're seeing just don't meet this guideline. My suggestion is that no one upvote the one-liners" - I'd love to see this happen. Unfortunately in order to make it happen the programmers.SE community as a whole needs to change so that one-liners just aren't crowd-pleasing anymore. The hard part is 'how do we start this change?' | |
| Feb 6, 2011 at 22:04 | comment | added | Jeff Atwood | totally a fair point -- short answers tend to be generally bad. | |
| Feb 5, 2011 at 8:45 | history | answered | jmort253 | CC BY-SA 2.5 |