Timeline for Add "SE is not a social networking site" to the list of what-site-is-not in the FAQ
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| Aug 15, 2010 at 6:37 | comment | added | ShreevatsaR | @T..: I still don't understand what's wrong with expecting every question to contain motivation as in why they want an answer, what work they have done so far, etc. At any rate, this is not a corollary of your "not a social networking site" statement (with which I agree); imagining that every question is posted by a different user would give the same outcome. "Not a social networking site" does not imply questions posted by a AI, nor do we want questions posed by AIs (or textbooks, problem sets). We want "real" questions. | |
| Aug 14, 2010 at 16:53 | comment | added | T.. | I should edit to make it clearer, but there is a world of difference between asking for information about the question (references, any known partial solution or special case, "motivation" in the mathematical sense of related subject matter) and information about the person posting: is it homework, why do they want an answer, what work have they done so far, etc. Even snide opinions seem fine as long as they discuss only the question, such as "I would be more inclined to spend time on this given more background, partial progress, or the problem source". | |
| Aug 14, 2010 at 16:38 | comment | added | ShreevatsaR | I completely agree with everything in your question except this: "Certainly a questioner can try to make it more attractive to others to spend time answering, by explaining why he wants an answer, what he has done, relevant references and sources, etc. But if the asker does not provide this, it seems to me to be out of bounds to interrogate aggressively for such information or to close a question." We (at least I) may "interrogate" or vote to close such questions not because it's asked by a human, but because incomplete questions are simply poor questions. Nothing to do with a person asking. | |
| Aug 14, 2010 at 10:27 | answer | added | Grigory M | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 14, 2010 at 10:08 | comment | added | user1119 | +1 for "not a social networking site". This is a very important to keep in mind. Another +1 for "imagining the questioner as an AI is a good habit for reducing the incentive to flamewars". (Here I can't actually vote; I am an unregistered user). | |
| Aug 14, 2010 at 9:36 | history | edited | T.. | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Aug 14, 2010 at 9:08 | comment | added | Grigory M | kind of related: meta.math.stackexchange.com/questions/588/… | |
| Aug 14, 2010 at 7:46 | answer | added | Casebash | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 14, 2010 at 7:19 | answer | added | Matt E | timeline score: 8 | |
| Aug 14, 2010 at 7:13 | comment | added | Casebash | @T: You post is certainly acceptable, these kinds of posts are made on meta all the time | |
| Aug 14, 2010 at 6:45 | history | edited | T.. | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Aug 14, 2010 at 6:37 | history | asked | T.. | CC BY-SA 2.5 |