Timeline for How can we get people to ground their Questions?
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| Dec 9 at 12:43 | comment | added | Miss Understands | @ScottRowe oh! [blushes; stares at floor] | |
| Dec 9 at 10:36 | comment | added | Scott Rowe | @MissUnderstands but, but, but, they're often the best thought-through ones. If we could just harness all that brainpower towards something that is both interesting and useful, my life would be so much better! BTW I like your stuff and often upvote even if it seems controversial, casual or "doesn't meet a Stack Exchange guideline", so mwa. | |
| Dec 8 at 23:00 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Dec 8 at 22:48 | comment | added | Miss Understands | @ScottRowe Yeah? Well ignore those questions and read something else. | |
| Dec 5 at 19:35 | answer | added | Idiosyncratic Soul | timeline score: 3 | |
| Dec 4 at 21:24 | answer | added | Ted Wrigley | timeline score: 2 | |
| Nov 27 at 1:44 | comment | added | Scott Rowe | @Rushi yeah, similar. I was pointing out how these particular cases cause interactions to worsen, which concerns me. | |
| Nov 27 at 1:22 | comment | added | Rushi | Is this different? | |
| Nov 25 at 22:01 | answer | added | Kaia | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 24 at 9:05 | answer | added | tkruse | timeline score: 5 | |
| Nov 23 at 16:04 | answer | added | Lowri | timeline score: 4 | |
| Nov 23 at 15:13 | comment | added | JonathanZ | Noble attitude, but if people are going to be allowed to make their own decisions and choices, one can only give good advice so many times before accepting that they've made their choice for themself. But in the meantime, if their decision harms a common good, we can decide to protect that common good. | |
| Nov 23 at 15:03 | comment | added | Scott Rowe | @JonathanZ yes, but honestly, I don't want people to waste their own time on stuff that simply isn't going to help them. | |
| Nov 23 at 14:55 | comment | added | JonathanZ | And in anticipation of someone coming with the "class time is limited, but storage space for additional posts on SE is essentially unlimited" argument: What's limited here is people's time, attention, and energy. Qualified people will stick around SE if we don't waste theirs. | |
| Nov 23 at 14:52 | history | became hot meta post | |||
| Nov 23 at 14:51 | comment | added | JonathanZ | Also, since you have experience being a teacher, y'know how you could come to recognize that certain students would regularly ask questions that, even though they might be rooted in genuine personal confusion and a desire to learn, it would not be a productive use of everyone else's class time to go over their questions in class? Well, that, but here | |
| Nov 23 at 14:47 | comment | added | JonathanZ | Down vote and vote to close. Repeat. | |
| Nov 23 at 3:54 | comment | added | Scott Rowe | When I was teaching programming I got so I could recognize most of the common problems just from a description, and I could distinguish a comma from a semicolon six feet away. But this isn't my classroom, so I can't see all the issues as clearly and it is not my place to tell people they are wrong. But, gosh, it sure does seem like much of what goes on here is misguided and a complete waste of time. When I was teaching I could cut off unproductive discussion or attempts by students to do the impossible. Not so much here. | |
| Nov 23 at 3:45 | comment | added | Scott Rowe | We know some of it is bad, but we don't know which, LOL. Animals usually don't eat something again that disagreed with them, but dogs do roll in dead things, so even animals aren't free from vice. | |
| Nov 23 at 3:38 | comment | added | causative Mod | Most philosophical claims are wrong, because on most philosophical issues there are at least three conflicting claims. Any wrong claim is unjustified; therefore, most philosophical claims are unjustified. Unjustified claims are bad philosophy. Thus, most philosophy is bad philosophy. So it is normal. You have to have a tolerance for discussing bad philosophy or you can't really discuss philosophy at all. (Of course, precisely which philosophy is the bad philosophy is very open to interpretation) | |
| Nov 23 at 3:33 | comment | added | Scott Rowe | I can, but I may not. | |
| Nov 23 at 2:27 | comment | added | causative Mod | Can you link to some of these questions? | |
| Nov 23 at 1:58 | history | asked | Scott Rowe | CC BY-SA 4.0 |