Timeline for What should be the minimum time frame a bad answer gets to live?
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| Dec 4, 2019 at 16:45 | comment | added | scohe001 | For more on my thought process when writing an answer and how I find and incorporate backup, you can take a look at the first part of this meta answer I wrote. | |
| Dec 4, 2019 at 16:43 | comment | added | scohe001 | @Minix to follow up on what Rain is saying, if you have no experience in a language on SO, you wouldn't answer a question there. However, if you have language experience but have never used the specific library they're talking about or a function they need, you can look at the docs and then answer with that information. The same is true here. If you have absolutely no experience with conflict aversion, for example, you probably shouldn't answer there. But if you have experience and find a situation you can't relate to, a quick google for a related article is perfectly reasonable backup! | |
| Dec 4, 2019 at 16:07 | history | edited | scohe001 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 4, 2019 at 14:59 | comment | added | Rainbacon | Personal experience doesn't have to mean that you've been in the exact same situation though. It could also be from you observing others in the same situation or even you using the same skills in a different situation. For example, say someone asks a question about resolving a fight with their wife. Maybe you aren't married, but you had a big fight with your best friend last year and found a way to talk things out. Those same skills could be used by the person trying to solve a fight with their wife. | |
| Dec 4, 2019 at 14:59 | comment | added | Rainbacon | @Minix "I still kind of don't see how that doesn't lead to 'only people who have been there can answer'" -> That's the entire point. On a technical SE site, it is easy to verify an answer. You run the code you were given and see if it works, if it doesn't you move on to the next answer. On an IPS problem, it's not that simple. Trying a wrong answer could have major consequences on your life. You might damage or destroy a relationship and there would be no chance to try and fix things from there. | |
| Dec 4, 2019 at 14:48 | vote | accept | Minix | ||
| Dec 4, 2019 at 14:48 | comment | added | Minix | I appreciate the administrative advantages of this approach and viewing the deletion of an answer as a sort of "staging area" as you suggest, I can see that it is not the end of the road. Obviously the terminology coupled with my inexperience with this approach doesn't really communicate that very well. Coming from technical SEs, I intentionally left out mentioning personal experiences as anecdotal evidence and I still kind of don't see how that doesn't lead to "only people who have been there can answer" type of arguments. I will follow your advice and try to come up with an edit, though. | |
| Dec 4, 2019 at 14:26 | history | answered | scohe001 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |