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What to do with tutorial requests? -- part II
Yes, allow them.
If you think it's a bad question, downvote it. If you think it's off-topic, vote to close it. If you don't like them, ignore them. I'm not going to defend low-effort questions, but I ...
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What to do with tutorial requests? -- part II
I'm really glad this question has opened up the discussion and to see so many participating. I've intentionally waited a long time to answer because the longer I think about this, the more ambivalent ...
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I think the main point that was missed, is that the real problem (IMHO) doesn't lie in the asker, but rather in those who answer.
Obviously the low quality questions are, well, low quality and ...
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What to do with tutorial requests? -- part II
Thanks for directing me to this conversation Vincent, I think this is a very important topic.
In general - Yes.
My opinion is we definitely shouldn't be giving full on-demand tutorials on this site ...
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What to do with tutorial requests? -- part II
I know that some of these questions are annoying, and yes I think requiring some effort would be best.
However, sometimes these come from absolute raw beginners (who may be genuine or not).
Do we ...
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What to do with tutorial requests? -- part II
Based on the views of this question as well as Why do how-to requests bother you? as well as countless older meta discussions and conversations there seems to be one specific problem that some have:
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Yes.
There is no problem with answering these kinds of questions, they should be upvoted when useful and answered as usual.
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What to do with tutorial requests? -- part II
I'm going to say guidance is necessary.
First, I agree with the points made by
Billy Kerr
and zeethreepio.
The answer shouldn't be a flat No, but we do need to know where to draw the line.
I want to ...
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What to do with tutorial requests? -- part II
No.
We should require a minimum effort for a request for help and should find a way to reduce the amount of these questions and discourage them from being answered.
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What to do with tutorial requests? -- part II
No, unless the answer is a software-independent solution.
There are other sites in the network that deal with how-to questions, and plenty of other online resources.
One of the main reasons I ...
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Target downvotes: informations on my profile
Below the query is a box where you can search for a different site to apply the same query to. It's a bit unintuitive. Or you can just replace the site name in the url.
Here are the links for GDSE:
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What to do with tutorial requests? -- part II
I think there are some issues with these questions. I haven't said what I think those issues are because I want others to respond first at Why do how-to requests bother you?
I think that only once ...
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Possible Solution (#2)
Again speaking as a new user as of 5 months from this post.
The tour:
Is not helpful.
Should be reformatted to be helpful to new users.
Should explain what is on topic and what ...
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Possible Solution (#1)
As @Billy Kerr said "sometimes the beginner or novice is totally clueless and wouldn't even know where to begin/what to try."
Does anyone want to help organize and ...
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What to do with tutorial requests? -- part II
I've been talking about this for years. Frankly the way the site has progressed it saddens me and makes me feel like at times we are just providing spec work.
If a user can whole heartily provide ...
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