Timeline for The real borderline for "Opinion based" in Software Engineering
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| May 21, 2019 at 15:35 | comment | added | candied_orange | @RobertHarvey oh I know. Even trying is a crap shoot. At the other end are the high energy ones that will waste your time ignoring their questions issues while trying to get you to solve their problem on your own. Which is why I try to identify one definite issue they can fix (out of likely 5) and see if they bother. The ones that bother I try to spend time on. | |
| May 21, 2019 at 15:29 | comment | added | Robert Harvey Mod | @candied_orange: The critical paragraph in this answer is the second one, where he states "I think the borderline is decided by the asker's willingness to add details to their question." The vast majority of new users simply don't bother. | |
| May 21, 2019 at 15:24 | comment | added | candied_orange | @RobertHarvey I wouldn't ask you to. But there are many other high rep users. gnat did a good job of beating sense into me without having a diamond. All we can ask of the moderators is that they make their current collective vision of the site clear enough on meta that the rest of us can do what gnat did for me. It won't stop enforcement from being subjective but it should paint some fuzzy lines the newbies can color inside. Last time we really tweaked that was when we renamed the site. If my advice to newbies is ever off target feel free to call me out. | |
| May 8, 2019 at 19:32 | comment | added | coolpasta | @RobertHarvey Correct and I acknowledged it, I know it's hard to keep track & try to help everyone but if more people did it, then it'd be so much better. As for myself, I'll start to try to comment more where the questions are clearly bad in the hopes of making the original asker improve. As of now, I'm not nowhere near competent enough to answer most questions but what I can contribute with is trying to keep the site clean. | |
| May 8, 2019 at 16:40 | comment | added | Robert Harvey Mod | There's a lot I could say about this answer, but it won't fit into the margin. So let me just say this: For such a small site as this is, it's still a lot of workload even for four moderators. There simply isn't the time or energy available to hold everyone's hand in the manner you describe. | |
| May 8, 2019 at 5:30 | history | answered | coolpasta | CC BY-SA 4.0 |