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I hate that people use Q&A sites as forums. If I ask a question on StackOverflow.com such as "how do i do x on the iphone", I'm pretty much guaranteed to get r
by marcc 16y ago
I hate that people use Q&A sites as forums. If I ask a question on StackOverflow.com such as "how do i do x on the iphone", I'm pretty much guaranteed to get responses (in the "answers" section) which state that i shouldn't do that. Q&A sites are for questions and answers. How is "it won't get approved for the appstore" a relevant answer? Maybe I don't even care about the appstore. If you think this is a concern, but still have an answer, include it as a footnote. Or just list it as a comment, but it's not an answer.
This actually drove me away from heavily contributing on SO recently.
- m_myers 16y agoIf you see answers on Stack Overflow that are simply noise, like "it won't get approved for the app store", please flag them. To some extent a "don't do it that way" answer is acceptable, but it's better if if also answers the question as written. See: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8891/is-dont-do-it-a-valid-answer http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8891/is-dont-do-it-a...