Can you point to an example? Please? I'm serious.
I always read this sentiment, but at least in the `r` tag that I was frequenting, most closed question were really terrible.
> The person wouldn't really read the entire post but just wave their hands and ask for this and that saying I haven't provided enough information. "This" and "that" wasn't needed to answer my question but I would provide this information anyway and then the person never comes back. This happened more often than not.
You didn't read my post, did you? :)
(Just being cheeky, I'm really curious to see an example!)
I just opened up closed SO questions (after not having used the site for almost half a decade) and most of them still seem pretty terrible.
Newest closed questions from [r]¹:
- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/79547868/order-dataframe... — Imho correctly labeled as a duplicate, and reads like a trauma dump. Definitely not a minimal reproducible example (MRE)².
- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/79547674/logistical-regr... — Not a programming question
- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/79547552/does-glmmtmb-au... — no MRE
- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/79546796/how-to-adjust-t... — unclear & contradicts itself
As a bonus, here's my only experience asking a question on SO. It was unsatisfactory in the end (as there was no solution at the time), but I tried to be helpful as an asker and received a decent answer:
- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52859316/animated-plot-w...
Because this is my only experience asking a question I was asking about specific examples where you felt the people on the site behaved badly. It was not to audit anyone but to improve (as I've answered a bunch of questions myself). :)
¹ Query: https://stackoverflow.com/search?tab=newest&q=%5br%5d%20clos...
² How to make a minimal reproducible example (MRE): https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5963269/how-to-make-a-gr...