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"Help vampires" aka people with a question that's been answered, are only a problem if you don't have proper search tools to show that a question has already be

"Help vampires" aka people with a question that's been answered, are only a problem if you don't have proper search tools to show that a question has already been asked (or answered). If you provide those, and people still ask, maybe their question actually is different. If you provide similar question tools for answerers, let them link to the other question/answers but there's no value in closing the question. That's just hostile and kills the opportunity to generate actual content. Also, let's be real. It's not the marking dupes that's problem it's all the "off topic" closures. Side note: you work at SO and call your users "help vampires". I think that elitist attitude is a huge part of the problem we're discussing here.

sklivvz1971 10y ago
Help vampires: people that ask questions which have no value other than themselves. Duplicate questions are not "help vampires" by any means. This is a good example of that: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30721824/near-syntax-error http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30721824/near-syntax-erro... Side note: don't pass judgement on stuff or people you don't know. It's quite insulting.
- exstudent2 10y ago
  First of all, if someone wants to answer that, more power to them. I'm talking about stuff like this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/378959/is-there-a-static-code-analyzer-like-lint-for-php-files http://stackoverflow.com/questions/378959/is-there-a-static-... Good work closing that one! > Side note: don't pass judgement on stuff or people you don't know. It's quite insulting. You don't know who I am so I'm not sure why you think I wouldn't know about community management or content generation. I'm simply telling you that calling your users names is insulting. It's good advice not a reason to attack me.
  - shagie 10y ago
    The Q&A format poorly handles the ever growing list of libraries that can do something. A wiki format is better for that. Maybe the documentation / examples that exists now. But sifting through dozens (this was closed before it got there) answers is more noise than signal. People aren't bothered to curate and clean old broken answers in such a format. Try slant.co for such a question instead.
- smoyer 10y ago
  While those telling the user who posted the question wer correct about deleting the comma, this question would have had immensely more value if they had simply said "don't build your query that way". There are many ways to mitigate SQL injections in Java - I would have up-voted any answer that responded with (e.g.) a parameter used query. So to me, this question's answers could in fact make it interesting and valuable.

sklivvz1971 10y ago

Help vampires: people that ask questions which have no value other than themselves. Duplicate questions are not "help vampires" by any means. This is a good example of that: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30721824/near-syntax-error http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30721824/near-syntax-erro... Side note: don't pass judgement on stuff or people you don't know. It's quite insulting.

exstudent2 10y ago
First of all, if someone wants to answer that, more power to them. I'm talking about stuff like this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/378959/is-there-a-static-code-analyzer-like-lint-for-php-files http://stackoverflow.com/questions/378959/is-there-a-static-... Good work closing that one! > Side note: don't pass judgement on stuff or people you don't know. It's quite insulting. You don't know who I am so I'm not sure why you think I wouldn't know about community management or content generation. I'm simply telling you that calling your users names is insulting. It's good advice not a reason to attack me.
- shagie 10y ago
  The Q&A format poorly handles the ever growing list of libraries that can do something. A wiki format is better for that. Maybe the documentation / examples that exists now. But sifting through dozens (this was closed before it got there) answers is more noise than signal. People aren't bothered to curate and clean old broken answers in such a format. Try slant.co for such a question instead.
smoyer 10y ago
While those telling the user who posted the question wer correct about deleting the comma, this question would have had immensely more value if they had simply said "don't build your query that way". There are many ways to mitigate SQL injections in Java - I would have up-voted any answer that responded with (e.g.) a parameter used query. So to me, this question's answers could in fact make it interesting and valuable.