Kalman wrote:
4 - You are the least objective person to judge whether your post is the answer.
That is not exactly true. We are doing Computer Science not witchcraft. You know that 2 * 2 = ? is answered by 4. But then again, if it is obvious that your response is the answer, someone will pick it up sooner or later (this can be 10 days later).
I disagree with the above. When your answer actually *is* the correct answer, you might indeed be a good one to judge. But when you happen to be in error (sorry, even computer scientists get things wrong from time to time) then you are woefully underqualified.
And how many times is a question asked for which there can be no dispute as to the answer:
Q: What is '2 * 2'
A: 4
quite often there are qualitative aspects to the situation, such as when someone asks which of three different (but valid) methods apply to a particular problem. The best "answer" to such a question usually comes following a discussion in which the relative
merits of each approach is weighed by people of differing opinions.
And sometimes it is the question itself whose actual meaning is either unclear, is somehow misunderstood, or which does not properly ask what it is that the OP actually wants. One example: "does anyone know what '2 * 2' is?" The answer to this is clearly
"YES", however those who see through to the OP's underlying conundrum would restate a more reasonable version of the question and then answer it.
Also there is more than one valid answer to the question "what is '2 * 2'?'": "'2 * 2' is an arithmetic expression involving the multiplication of a small integer by itself".
Al Dunbar -- remember to 'mark or propose as answer' or 'vote as helpful' as appropriate.
Is it good etiquette to propose one's own forum post as an answer?
Vote As Helpful & click on
Mark As Answer if a post answers your question.
