Timeline for How to discourage crowd-pleasing non-answers?
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| Feb 12, 2011 at 7:48 | comment | added | Rei Miyasaka | @jmort That's true. | |
| Feb 12, 2011 at 5:41 | comment | added | jmort253 | @Rei - I have to say that I haven't seen to many examples of flame wars here. For the most part, most people keep themselves in check and respectfully disagree. | |
| Feb 12, 2011 at 3:46 | comment | added | Rei Miyasaka | It's for several reasons. First the discussion is regarding social matters, so often it involves subjecting people to judgment, which means that it can easily degrade into a flame war. Second even if you can deduce facts rationally, you can't demonstrate things empirically or in code or math like you can on SO. That means that real answers need to be expressed in the same plain English that silly answers are in, so it's hard to distinguish them from noise. Third, social phenomena are often complex, so their accurate descriptions tend to be long -- and people want to read short answers first. | |
| Feb 11, 2011 at 18:46 | comment | added | Benjamin | Rei, I was unaware that "P.SE is just too fragile". Can you explain or elaborate? | |
| Feb 9, 2011 at 20:46 | comment | added | Rei Miyasaka | I agree, but P.SE is something of an endangered species. There aren't many places on the internet that allow for rational qualitative discussion on issues that programmers face. Almost anywhere else I'd have no problems with frequent humorous interjections, but P.SE is just too fragile. | |
| Feb 9, 2011 at 15:56 | history | answered | Benjamin | CC BY-SA 2.5 |