Timeline for The 'higher rep' user's dilemma
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| Jan 31, 2018 at 16:00 | comment | added | Félix Gagnon-Grenier | That's really interesting. On Stack Overflow, when discussing the downward going site quality, we mostly discuss about burning everything with fire from orbit. | |
| Jan 28, 2018 at 6:11 | comment | added | ab2 | @curiousdannii This is related to the question the OP asks, and is exactly the Q asked in The Great Outdoors Meta outdoors.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1094/…. There is nothing wrong with your asking a good question to which you know the answer and giving a bit of the answer as part of the research in the Q. It would enliven the site greatly, could inspire users to do research and could even give people ideas for questions of their own that they otherwise would not have. Please, as an experiment, ask one or two such questions. | |
| Jan 25, 2018 at 13:31 | comment | added | user 66974 | @curiousdannii - good, looking forward to seeing your answers :) | |
| Jan 25, 2018 at 13:13 | comment | added | curiousdannii | @user159691 Indeed, I do when I think I can contribute helpfully. | |
| Jan 25, 2018 at 13:06 | comment | added | user 66974 | @curiousdannii - but with your degree, you could help the site with good answers. Couldn't you? | |
| Jan 25, 2018 at 11:29 | comment | added | user 66974 | @curiousdannii - I see...luckily not all users have one, or a site like this would not exist. | |
| Jan 25, 2018 at 11:11 | comment | added | curiousdannii | @user159691 I'm at an extra advantage - I have a linguistics degree. | |
| Jan 25, 2018 at 9:45 | comment | added | user 66974 | @curiousdannii - I really wish I had your ability. | |
| Jan 25, 2018 at 0:48 | comment | added | curiousdannii | I've never been able to ask a question, because every time I have a question, I find the answer in my preliminary research. | |
| Jan 24, 2018 at 7:56 | vote | accept | Shoe | ||
| Jan 24, 2018 at 7:56 | history | edited | Shoe | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 23, 2018 at 22:59 | comment | added | Tonepoet | I think the problem is o't so much that the community would procedurally bar questions if they were asked the right way, even if the answer was found. I think the problem is motivating high rep. members to actually contribute the results of their research. Once you get enough rep. and know how to use all of the tools well enough to find an answer on your own, there's just not much incentive the community can return to you, and the imposition of the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license upon us does not make matters much better, since you're surrendering exclusive rights to anything you do bother to write. | |
| Jan 23, 2018 at 19:46 | comment | added | ab2 | A similar Q was asked on The Great Outdoors Meta outdoors.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1094/…. The answers are worth reading. | |
| Jan 23, 2018 at 19:22 | comment | added | NVZ Mod | @Gio I think not. I think the upvotes on this meta question indicate "me too!". We are all high-rep-users here, who are lost. We have questions, but we have answers as well. We do not know what to do with those. To share, or not to share... | |
| Jan 23, 2018 at 18:29 | answer | added | Mari-Lou A | timeline score: 10 | |
| Jan 23, 2018 at 18:26 | comment | added | NVZ Mod | @ab2 Guess what? Google-fuing gets me back onto ELU: english.stackexchange.com/q/19967/50044 Ha! | |
| Jan 23, 2018 at 18:17 | comment | added | ab2 | By a strange coincidence, I just killed a question I was writing about "coasteer" [sic] because I found the answer on line, although not in General Reference. (GR says the word does not exist, but it does.) Yes, the OP has identified a major dilemma for users adept in google-fuing (if that is a word.) | |
| Jan 23, 2018 at 16:35 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglish/status/955841374640922629 | ||
| Jan 23, 2018 at 15:53 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | There's no dilemma. Shoe can post the question if they think it is useful and interesting but not supply the link that contains the answer. If users like the question they will answer. If they don't, Shoe can post the "answer" him/herself before it is closed. | |
| Jan 23, 2018 at 15:41 | answer | added | Tonepoet | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jan 23, 2018 at 15:28 | comment | added | Shoe | @AakashM. My comment above was in response to another comment, since deleted, about the fish question. But as NVZ points out, that is just a red herring. | |
| Jan 23, 2018 at 15:18 | comment | added | NVZ Mod | @Mari-LouA But since Shoe has good Google-Fu, the "research" becomes the "answer", which is what leads us to this dilemma. | |
| Jan 23, 2018 at 15:15 | comment | added | NVZ Mod | @AakashM I think you are missing the point, or maybe that's intentional? | |
| Jan 23, 2018 at 14:02 | comment | added | AakashM | What about 'sheep' ? | |
| Jan 23, 2018 at 13:05 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | Best tip: Share your research so nobody can vote to close your question as general knowledge. | |
| Jan 23, 2018 at 12:44 | comment | added | NVZ Mod | I for one find on my own answers to almost every question that comes to me. I did however ask once or twice here, and found that the answer was within my own research but I failed to notice the obvious. | |
| Jan 23, 2018 at 12:32 | comment | added | NVZ Mod | Spoiler alert: It's a grey area. | |
| Jan 23, 2018 at 12:23 | history | edited | NVZMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 23, 2018 at 11:39 | history | asked | Shoe | CC BY-SA 3.0 |