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Stack overflow is terrible about this. If I'm asking, I've already considered options. Any better place to ask?
by wemdyjreichert 8y ago
Stack overflow is terrible about this. If I'm asking, I've already considered options. Any better place to ask?
- tqkxzugoaupvwqr 8y agoYou can partially prevent unwanted/unhelpful answers by explicitly stating in your question post that you cannot do x, y, z for reasons a, b, c.
- jaclaz 8y agoYes, generally, on stackoverflow (but not only) "going astray" replies are actually due to both: 1) responders that either have not read fully the question or not knowing the actual answer decide to suggest something else that they know (or believe) would work 2) badly asked questions, sometimes it is a good thing to be synthetic when asking, but sometimes providing an even minimal background and particularly listing what attempts have been done before make a better question
- suprfnk 8y ago> If I'm asking, I've already considered options. I think there are more people that haven't considered other options when asking. They just got stuck for a bit and want others to help them out. This makes people that answer questions jaded, and cause them to act like that. Like the other poster said, probably best to just specify that you've considered those options.