July 22, 2009 at 1:55 pm
Would it be profitable to have a way to quickly identify which requests were solved? Either by modifying the title with [Solved] for example, having a different color (semi-transparent for instance) or an icon next to the post.
This would be easier to determine which request was solved and which are not. Therefore when having 5 minutes it would be easier to spot those that still need help from those that were satisfied with the provided answer.
Of course I understand that not everyone will adhere to this rule but still it would filter some of them. For those kind of post (not check solved), a timeout (for example 15 days) could be set and automatically that post will get a different way to identify it meaning that it's either a zombie post or no one has been able to respond to since then.
July 23, 2009 at 6:33 am
From a learning point of view I totally agree with the replies found on that thread Lynn. When I'm looking at an issue I'll gladly read mostly everything related to it to fully understand what's going on and participating in those threads to either improved it or bringing a new point of view if I can.
However from an helping perspective I believe a lot of time is wasted reading something, you either know, or (often) there's already a very good solution posted which make you somewhat helpless when an other thread still need to be taken care of and someone is waiting.
I feel it's somewhat like "I'll randomly helping someone. Either those that were already feed to improve their health even if they don't eat / care anymore and those that are starving, well there's no way to know that you are starving therefore wait in line like everyone else."
When I do have some times available, I'm looking to help those that are still need help and the only way I can do it is looking at the number of reply which I give priority for those that none answered yet.
I understand that some (or everyone, could happen) might disagree with me but that's my point of view.
July 23, 2009 at 6:46 am
I forgot something that will speak out the answer by itself.
Which is what is the main purpose of SSC? What is it's living reason.
This will answers what need to be covered or not. Therefore my proposal might be futile or not and I'll gladly retract if I'm wrong.
July 24, 2009 at 9:24 am
You're not wrong, but it's a difference of opinion. We built this site to try and educate/help people with SQL Server. That's learning more about how it works, what's broken, workarounds, as well as educating people about different techniques you can try.
The problem is what's a right answer? The OP is arguable unable to judge what a good answer is. They might mark something as solving their issue, but they might not realize that it didn't work, or that it didn't solve the problem well. Or that it introduced another issue.
Many of the questions don't have a specific answer. If there's an issue, there might be multiple ways to solve it, or there might be more things to look at. Marking something as "this is the answer" doesn't always work.
As I've used some other sites, like Stack Overflow that want to have a canonical answer, I think they are lacking sometimes in that relatively few questions just have a cut and dried answer. You have to discuss it, dig in, and get more information.
Also the founders personally did not like multi-threaded discussions, so we don't allow them here.
July 24, 2009 at 9:43 am
Ok.
You can mark it as answered 😛
July 24, 2009 at 9:49 am
:), touche!
Happy to listen to arguments about this. Just not swayed as of yet.
Have a good weekend
July 28, 2009 at 9:59 pm
Megistal (7/23/2009)
I forgot something that will speak out the answer by itself.Which is what is the main purpose of SSC? What is it's living reason.
This will answers what need to be covered or not. Therefore my proposal might be futile or not and I'll gladly retract if I'm wrong.
AFAIK, the purpose of this site is to help people, especially to help people learn.
It turns out that most of us top posters have discovered that having to read through already answered question actually helps us. It's one of the principle ways that I learn new things. 🙂
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