Timeline for What to do with tutorial requests? -- part II
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| Feb 19, 2018 at 13:49 | comment | added | zeethreepio | There seems to be a lot of concern regarding spec work that has spawned from this conversation. Can't say I've run into this being a problem on this site but it seems like there might be a valid conversation that needs to be had based on the responses in this thread. Needless to say, people asking for free work is unethical and would be a much larger problem if this site was known as a place where one could get it. My thought is there's a pretty clear line between asking for help on a technique vs. asking for someone to complete their assignment. | |
| Feb 16, 2018 at 20:18 | comment | added | user9447 | Beginners should be welcome however we also shouldn't be offering free work to individuals that are too lazy to show what they've tried. We should be proud of the site and offering spec work is a slap in the face to the design community | |
| Feb 16, 2018 at 15:41 | comment | added | Billy Kerr | @usr2564301 - yes, but that's another issue. Asking for free work is still somewhat rude regardless of how nicely they ask for it. I'm more concerned that we might chase away beginners/novices altogether. I think that GDSE has been welcoming to such people, and I want to see that continue. | |
| Feb 16, 2018 at 15:31 | comment | added | Jongware | @BillyKerr: there are also non-rude ways of asking someone to do work for free. That does not mean it's on topic. But the On Topic guide also mentions not to ask for "extended tutorials – instead focus on a single aspect that you are struggling with", which is IMO exactly the wording we are looking for here, and questions which do ask (literally or implied) can be safely closed as "Too broad". | |
| Feb 16, 2018 at 15:30 | comment | added | zeethreepio | Great points, tutorials I have no problem with. "Do this for me and send me teh filez" is a whole separate issue, not to mention extremely unethical. Questions that infer this should be closed immediately. I didn't think these were the type of questions we were talking about here. | |
| Feb 16, 2018 at 15:28 | comment | added | Billy Kerr | @usr2564301 - but of course. There is no room for being rude, or demanding things. | |
| Feb 16, 2018 at 15:25 | comment | added | Jongware | A careful upvote for this careful answer. Yes but It Depends – if only on the actual wording of a question: "How would I do this?" vs. "Do this for me and send me teh filez" (which, alas, is not unheard of). But I am afraid that as soon as we adopt that as a rule, people will add "the required magic words", just as they do now with "I tried all font identification tools". | |
| Feb 16, 2018 at 15:24 | comment | added | Billy Kerr | You have some very good points there. You are absolutely correct, sometimes the beginner or novice is totally clueless and wouldn't even know where to begin/what to try. Sometimes they are embarrassed to ask. Punishing them for not knowing stuff is unfair. However there should be a balance I think, and OPs should be encouraged to improve their questions, but as for discouraging others from helping/answering even if it does end up being a tutorial, I think that's a step too far. | |
| Feb 16, 2018 at 14:51 | history | answered | zeethreepio | CC BY-SA 3.0 |