Timeline for Understanding differences between a good question and a bad question
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| Feb 2, 2012 at 17:22 | comment | added | yannis | @Mithir Well, if you can't revise it, you may consider creating a chat room for it... I can't promise that people will be interested and you'll get a discussion going, but you never know :) And, ChrisF did write that it's a very fine line... For what it's worth, my close vote was on the first version of your question, from experience OPs who post rants never come back and revise... You proved me wrong, this time, obviously. As for the second version, I'm torn. Probably wouldn't cast a close vote, but probably won't cast a reopen vote as well... Confused. :) | |
| Feb 2, 2012 at 17:17 | comment | added | Mithir | @YannisRizos on a more private note, Chris answered here that if the bad question gets good responses it may not be closed, so maybe closing this kind of questions prematurely robs the community of some fine answers | |
| Feb 2, 2012 at 16:55 | answer | added | gnat | timeline score: 2 | |
| Feb 2, 2012 at 16:49 | comment | added | Mithir | (cont...) I'm not arguing against your point, I get your point totally, I'm just saying maybe I cant modify this question so it will pass as programmers topic | |
| Feb 2, 2012 at 16:43 | comment | added | Mithir | Yassou Yanis, what you suggest is right, focusing on one problem at a given time will be more on topic and may even give the results we wish for. After saying that, I still think that developers should accept the fact that some times they have flaws in there designs and listen to criticism. I agree that sometimes she may be right and we wrong, but I asked this question because she was confronted with articles all the time, and she resisted that, so what you suggest will just be more of the same, so thus is why it is a behavior issue and not a specific design issue. | |
| Feb 2, 2012 at 16:32 | comment | added | yannis | (cont...) We have absolutely no way of telling if your colleague is overreacting, being overly emotional or if you are presenting the situation to your favour and just vent a bit. But we can certainly evaluate competing designs, and arm you with technical reasons on why yours is the better one (if it actually is). The first version of the question describes a very delicate situation, one that ultimately has only one answer: discuss the matter internally, either with the whole team or your manager, depending on your organizational structure. But that's not really an answer, is it? | |
| Feb 2, 2012 at 16:30 | comment | added | yannis | The question is still salvageable (imho). My comments were on the rantish first version, just saw the second version, and it's quite an improvement. But still off topic. The comment by @ThomasX is right on the money, give us a couple of actual examples of the competing designs, so we can evaluate them. You can either improve the question, or better yet ask a new one. The trick is, make it about the design, not the behaviour. Don't even tell us which design is hers, and when you get a thorough technical answer proving that your design is better, just send her the link to the question. | |
| Feb 2, 2012 at 16:16 | vote | accept | Mithir | ||
| Feb 2, 2012 at 15:18 | comment | added | smp7d | you are not the only one who is confused, this may be of some interest to you: meta.programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/2987/… | |
| Feb 2, 2012 at 14:46 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackProgrammer/status/165083624146870272 | ||
| Feb 2, 2012 at 13:41 | answer | added | Ryathal | timeline score: 5 | |
| Feb 2, 2012 at 10:21 | history | edited | gnat | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 2, 2012 at 10:15 | vote | accept | Mithir | ||
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| Feb 2, 2012 at 9:58 | answer | added | ChrisFMod | timeline score: 7 | |
| Feb 2, 2012 at 9:54 | history | asked | Mithir | CC BY-SA 3.0 |