Timeline for How do we feel about requests for learning materials?
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| Jan 21, 2014 at 21:27 | comment | added | Angelo Fuchs | @Braiam Obviously I know I am at the beginning, else I would know how to look for answers. Its often quite hard to find courses or books about stuff you start learning about. Also, why they are different issues and questions the kind of answers are similar. You get more than one valid and each of them is likely to help you. And from my point of view Stack Exchange is about answers, questions are merely a necessary perquisite. | |
| Jan 21, 2014 at 15:03 | comment | added | Braiam | And in really they are different issues and questions. With the first you have defined clearly where you are and where you want to be, with the later you don't know where you are and where you want to go and expect us knowing that for you. | |
| Jan 16, 2014 at 14:42 | comment | added | Angelo Fuchs | I think we two won't reach a conclusion. I understand what you mean, I just disagree with it. From my point of view, everything that can be said about the answers to "how do I disable beep in xterm" can be said to the answers of "where do I learn about xterm configuration" | |
| Jan 16, 2014 at 14:39 | comment | added | terdon Mod | And yes, "how do I write mods for apache" would be a bad question, I just used it as an example to contrast with "where do I learn about...". | |
| Jan 16, 2014 at 14:39 | comment | added | terdon Mod | (answering your comment from here so we don't flood haziz with messages) Exactly, one of them (or all) will work for me and I can choose the one I ended up using. That's a specific problem with a specific answer. "Where can I learn about xterm" is not. It will generate a list of potentially thousands of different websites, all of which are findable through an internet search. | |
| Jan 16, 2014 at 14:38 | comment | added | Angelo Fuchs | But "How do I write mods for apache" would be closed as too broad and correctly so. As the close reason "too broad" says: "good answers would be too long for this format." So, no "How do I write mods for apache" is not the right question. | |
| Jan 16, 2014 at 14:33 | comment | added | terdon Mod |
No, where can I learn about X is not a specific question. I can answer here! and you can answer there! and Alice can answer elsewhere!, all three of which are great resources. Which one is THE answer? The SE network sites deal with specific answers. Problems that can be solved. Asking for a list of references is not such an issue. The right question would be "How do I write mods for apache", ask for the information, not how to get it.
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| Jan 16, 2014 at 14:31 | comment | added | Angelo Fuchs |
@terdon Where can I learn everything about X may be too broad as a question but Where may I learn $specific about X is not. Where can I learn all about apache is too broad. Where can I learn about writing mods for apache is not. The question itself How does one write a mod for apache again is too broad. (thanks for explaining DVs here)
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| Jan 16, 2014 at 12:51 | comment | added | terdon Mod |
Yup. First of all, downvotes on meta cost no reputation and should be taken even less personally than DVs on the main site, if someone disagrees with your meta proposal, they downvote to show it. That's how a community consensus is reached. The type of question you talk about is not about a specific problem. Where can I learn about X has thousands of possible answers, each as good as the other. How do you mark one as accepted? Which one is 'correct'? Books are not that different but since they are physical objects, they tend to stick around more.
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| Jan 16, 2014 at 12:43 | comment | added | Angelo Fuchs | Downvoter, care to comment? | |
| Jan 16, 2014 at 11:12 | history | answered | Angelo Fuchs | CC BY-SA 3.0 |