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I usually try to avoid this by adding a question mark as early as possible to the conversation. It happens way too often that people are trying to answer a ques
by mmcnl 5y ago
I usually try to avoid this by adding a question mark as early as possible to the conversation. It happens way too often that people are trying to answer a question without even knowing what the question is or solving a problem without knowing what the problem is. That leads to confusing conversations.
Regarding the example:
> There are no docs for <X>
Respond by: "What do you want to achieve?" or "How can I help?", and don't assume that you know what the other person wants to know.
- vba616 5y agoIt is infuriating on nearly a daily basis when I search for how to do something, find my question on stack overflow, and the responses are all arguing that it's an X/Y problem or insisting that they should do something different. Whereupon the asker gives up, or it turns out they really did want the answer to "Y", but I want the answer to "X".