Timeline for Please put your answers in the answers section, even if they're short
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| Nov 28, 2015 at 22:20 | comment | added | Olin Lathrop | Your answers usually have good content, but you do tend to ramble. I can see why some downvote that. Why not just write concisely? It would take less words and less time. And by the way, I checked, and I actually upvoted your solar garbage compactor answer on EE.SE. Even though I thought is was unnecessarily long, I thought the good content outweighed that. | |
| Nov 19, 2015 at 2:00 | comment | added | mattdm | This.... mainly seems like a rant about something on other stack exchange sites. | |
| Oct 16, 2015 at 4:48 | comment | added | Russell McMahon | .... is hardly what you'd expect for 7 screens of competent relevant technical material. I added more, in part to address various comments but they just keep on whining once they start. Looking at it now it's not obvious what their problems were. I made the most major additions about a week after the original post. It still has 3 downvotes. Whatever | |
| Oct 16, 2015 at 4:44 | comment | added | Russell McMahon | @AJHenderson Example follows. | "Should" is such a strong word :-). My aim (especially in EE) is to be as helpful as I can with the time I choose to use. Sometimes that's a reference class article - sometimes its a comment or a "data dump. Those who dislike the latter can be persistent. | One old post came to mind This answer of mine - re solar garbage compactors attracted very substantial acrimonious comment. Comments have been deleted I see BUT the +4 = +7-3 .... | |
| Oct 15, 2015 at 14:50 | comment | added | AJ Henderson Mod | If the environment of a site is such that a user would rather post a comment than an answer, then either the site is too aggressively anti-helpful or the answerer really shouldn't be answering in the first place. It could come down on either side, but answering as comments really isn't the answer to that problem. Dealing with the underlying issue (which ever one it is) is far preferable. | |
| Oct 15, 2015 at 14:48 | comment | added | AJ Henderson Mod | ah, makes sense. I tend to be verbose as well in a lot of cases, but then again, it may be something specific to EE. I don't mean to detract from your point, but was simply trying to highlight I think that in the situation you describe, the problem is that users are possibly too aggressively pursuing looks over content, resulting in a larger problem of driving people to post answers as comments. The site owners are the source of wanting to avoid answers in comments and treating comments as second class citizens. | |
| Oct 15, 2015 at 14:43 | comment | added | Russell McMahon | @AJHenderson - I'm liable to be worse than most. I'm "verbose" at the best of times. Sometimes circumstances may lead me to want to convey things but not to spend time prettifying them. The aim isn't to make a 'pig's ear' out of the post but others may see it that way. Som seem to equate comprehensibility with format and tidiness. While there is some correlation I can manage what seems on later inspection to be a fairly cogent post which is criticised (or even derided :-) ) by some. This is more on the EE site. | |
| Oct 15, 2015 at 5:06 | comment | added | AJ Henderson Mod | I don't think I've ever heard that on any of the sites I've participated on. The only time I can think of seeing down voting with formatting given as a reason was when it was a valid answer but was all one long run on paragraph with no breaks at all and grammatical issues that made it hard to actually get the info out. Maybe I've just been really lucky or maybe it is something about my writing style, but I've never seen this problem. | |
| Oct 14, 2015 at 14:44 | history | answered | Russell McMahon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |