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This is not a good approach. For the typical person asking a question, you waste their time at best. At worst, they actually use your solution to Y and ignore w
by chowells 5y ago
This is not a good approach. For the typical person asking a question, you waste their time at best. At worst, they actually use your solution to Y and ignore why it's bad. Both of those are significantly worse than clarifying the problem in the first place.
- systemvoltage 5y agoNo one is saying we shouldn't provide why Y is bad. I said, it should be a corollary. The bad approach is when the entire thread is full of guesses of what X might be without knowing the full context. Y is nowhere to be found. It breaks the UX of SO.