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> Just answer the fucking question, Beep Boop. Insufficient funds. Insert card to continue. Or perhaps treat other people like humans instead of an answer ven

• pbourke 6y ago
  I interpret this to mean: if you are going to answer the question, just answer the one asked rather than assuming that the question was asked in error and answering some other one. I don’t interpret this to mean: I’m entitled to your answer. That being said, I appreciate answers of the form: “here’s how you do Y. If you really just wanted X, you can do this instead”
• funyunpowder 6y ago
  on stack overflow, the more friendly and 'treat other people like humans' esque a question is, the more off track it becomes. dry, cold questions tend to get the best answers. if the goal is to learn something, it's best to treat the site like an answer vending machine. for example, a question treating other people like humans: "hi. I need to get the last two letters of a string in Javascript. can anyone help? thanks" is likely to attract a bunch of curious types of 'why do you need to get the last two letters of a string?' type answers, versus posting something deliberately robotic seeming: "javascript: get last 2 letters of string" immediately gets replied with no-nonsense answers from people wanting to drop their knowledge and get stack overflow green checkmark points for being the fastest answerer etc.