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On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 19:03:20 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: |
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> > More seriously, there is such a thing as a bad question, and they |
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> > significantly outnumber the good. Most questions provide too little |
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> > information to get a really useful answer. GIGO applies here as much |
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> > as anywhere else. |
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> While I agree with you in general, I still think that most noise on |
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> most mailing lists is due to bad answers, not questions. Answers tend |
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> to get triggered by keywords without the answering folks reading the |
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> whole question. |
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That's a fair point, but there are also a lot of bad answers because the |
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questions required too much guesswork to answer. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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Out of sorts? Heck, I'm out of *most* algorithms! |
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