I must be stupid.
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I must be some special kind of stupid. I never paid much attention to Q&A, until yesterday. I checked the questions on C# to see if I could help some newbie programmer in any way. I worked my way through five or six questions, when I realized that I cannot help, because I don't understand the question. Heck, I don't even understand the issue! :doh: Am I alone in this, or do others have issues with the way questions are phrased in Q&A?
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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I must be some special kind of stupid. I never paid much attention to Q&A, until yesterday. I checked the questions on C# to see if I could help some newbie programmer in any way. I worked my way through five or six questions, when I realized that I cannot help, because I don't understand the question. Heck, I don't even understand the issue! :doh: Am I alone in this, or do others have issues with the way questions are phrased in Q&A?
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
Welcome to my parlour said the spider to the fly...
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I must be some special kind of stupid. I never paid much attention to Q&A, until yesterday. I checked the questions on C# to see if I could help some newbie programmer in any way. I worked my way through five or six questions, when I realized that I cannot help, because I don't understand the question. Heck, I don't even understand the issue! :doh: Am I alone in this, or do others have issues with the way questions are phrased in Q&A?
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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I must be some special kind of stupid. I never paid much attention to Q&A, until yesterday. I checked the questions on C# to see if I could help some newbie programmer in any way. I worked my way through five or six questions, when I realized that I cannot help, because I don't understand the question. Heck, I don't even understand the issue! :doh: Am I alone in this, or do others have issues with the way questions are phrased in Q&A?
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
Just skip those questions, or ask for clarification. I'm often enough seeing questions other people don't understand, but I'm able to answer. But the other way around is admittedly more common.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
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I must be some special kind of stupid. I never paid much attention to Q&A, until yesterday. I checked the questions on C# to see if I could help some newbie programmer in any way. I worked my way through five or six questions, when I realized that I cannot help, because I don't understand the question. Heck, I don't even understand the issue! :doh: Am I alone in this, or do others have issues with the way questions are phrased in Q&A?
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
Some of them are phrased very badly, but it is sometimes possible to read between the lines and work it out. Generally speaking, the worse the phrasing, the simpler the problem! If you don't understand it, ignore it, or ask for clarification. What I hate is when people decide "this s a rubbish question - I'll vote to close it" instead of getting it clarified. :sigh:
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay... AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Some of them are phrased very badly, but it is sometimes possible to read between the lines and work it out. Generally speaking, the worse the phrasing, the simpler the problem! If you don't understand it, ignore it, or ask for clarification. What I hate is when people decide "this s a rubbish question - I'll vote to close it" instead of getting it clarified. :sigh:
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay... AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I must be some special kind of stupid. I never paid much attention to Q&A, until yesterday. I checked the questions on C# to see if I could help some newbie programmer in any way. I worked my way through five or six questions, when I realized that I cannot help, because I don't understand the question. Heck, I don't even understand the issue! :doh: Am I alone in this, or do others have issues with the way questions are phrased in Q&A?
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
I also noticed that the questions seem to get more difficult, maybe a good sign as this might be interpreted that we trained the newbies well, and now they don't need to ask beginners questions anymore. Another theory of mine is that the programming landscape is getting more and more diversified, and we oldies can not be expected to be knowledgeable on the plethora of subjects ...
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I must be some special kind of stupid. I never paid much attention to Q&A, until yesterday. I checked the questions on C# to see if I could help some newbie programmer in any way. I worked my way through five or six questions, when I realized that I cannot help, because I don't understand the question. Heck, I don't even understand the issue! :doh: Am I alone in this, or do others have issues with the way questions are phrased in Q&A?
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
If you want to feel a little better, post some really obscure questions that only you'll know the answers to and then come back in 10 minutes and answer them yourself. :laugh: Here are some suggested questions: What is Cornelius Henning's favorite OS? Answer: VAX / OpenVMS (we will accept either answer) What is Cornelius Henning's favorite OS to hate on: Answer : Same as everyone else, Win10. :laugh: Just make sure you can answer these questions correctly or it's going to be really painful. :laugh: :laugh:
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I must be some special kind of stupid. I never paid much attention to Q&A, until yesterday. I checked the questions on C# to see if I could help some newbie programmer in any way. I worked my way through five or six questions, when I realized that I cannot help, because I don't understand the question. Heck, I don't even understand the issue! :doh: Am I alone in this, or do others have issues with the way questions are phrased in Q&A?
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
Lolz! I also tried to do like you. But soon I started to feel that I am not well experienced experienced to do so. :( :laugh:
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I must be some special kind of stupid. I never paid much attention to Q&A, until yesterday. I checked the questions on C# to see if I could help some newbie programmer in any way. I worked my way through five or six questions, when I realized that I cannot help, because I don't understand the question. Heck, I don't even understand the issue! :doh: Am I alone in this, or do others have issues with the way questions are phrased in Q&A?
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
Don't get me started... Q&A was a bad idea from the start.
