Timeline for Closing for "Unclear what you're asking" detrimental to educating new users to our guidelines?
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| May 26, 2018 at 8:03 | comment | added | Wrzlprmft Mod | @joojaa: And some people react very positively to it. Given the return rate of such users, I much prefer a saving edit guessing the intentions to some extent than going to the long process of elaborating what the user wants. Most importantly, if I do this I leave a comment along the lines of: “I edited your question to make it more clear. For this I made a few guesses. Please check whether everything still matches your intentions and edit otherwise.” | |
| May 22, 2018 at 17:31 | comment | added | curious Mod | @LateralTerminal Can you elaborate on what that balance is in your answer? | |
| May 22, 2018 at 17:28 | comment | added | LateralTerminal | @Emilie Yes but I've tried to do that before and my edit was rejected for changing OPs intentions too much. So I think the balance we've struck is pretty good. | |
| May 22, 2018 at 16:27 | comment | added | curious Mod | The problem I see with this is if the editor makes the wrong assumptions, it literally hijacks the OP's questions and becomes even more misleading to get proper answers. I think rephrasing to confirm with OP in a comment would open more of a dialogue, and also require more of an effort from them to learn the terminology (as opposed to force feeding it to them) | |
| May 22, 2018 at 16:02 | comment | added | LateralTerminal | @joojaa Yes I agree. A lot of people will be upset. If we keep the edits minor than I believe this is the best option to educate new users. | |
| May 22, 2018 at 16:01 | comment | added | joojaa | Many new users react very badly to edits and clarification requests. To their mind everythi8ng is perfect. | |
| May 22, 2018 at 15:35 | history | answered | LateralTerminal | CC BY-SA 4.0 |