Timeline for How should we edit questions that are an XY problem?
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| Oct 15, 2017 at 12:25 | answer | added | Jennifer 442 | timeline score: -3 | |
| Oct 9, 2017 at 16:28 | comment | added | Catija Mod | @OldPadawan As a note, I intentionally left your comment there because I think the title needs to be fixed... but shrug. | |
| Oct 9, 2017 at 16:03 | answer | added | TinkeringbellMod | timeline score: 6 | |
| Oct 8, 2017 at 16:33 | answer | added | akaioi | timeline score: 0 | |
| Oct 8, 2017 at 16:13 | comment | added | Anne Daunted GoFundMonica | More insistence on OPs formulating a goal could solve many of those XY problems, but probably not all. At least, it would make the OPs think a bit harder about what they want to achieve. The "Anything" and "Lazy" questions may well have benefitted from it. | |
| Oct 8, 2017 at 3:17 | history | edited | CatijaMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 7, 2017 at 6:05 | comment | added | NVZ | I found this comment by John Doe explaining the XY problem better for me. For example, let's say Bob is trying to hang some blinds, and decides to use pizza dough to install them. He asks Alice if pizza dough would be a good adhesive, but she has no idea that he's trying to hang blinds, so she doesn't have the information she needs to tell Bob that this is a bad approach, and her answer isn't as useful for Bob as "try using screws" or something like that. | |
| Oct 7, 2017 at 4:08 | history | asked | CatijaMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |