Timeline for Appropriate response for questions that could be answered by searching first?
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| Sep 29, 2011 at 3:52 | comment | added | Joel Spolsky | that said, talking in the abstract is unlikely to lead to agreement. I want to see a sample question before we argue about how to treat it. | |
| Sep 29, 2011 at 3:51 | comment | added | Joel Spolsky | Just because they have no right to an answer, doesn't mean that it wouldn't make the internet better if there were an answer on stack exchange. Sometimes you hold your nose and make the internet a better place for the next 100 people even with the person asking isn't living up to his part of the bargain | |
| Sep 29, 2011 at 3:48 | comment | added | Jeff Atwood | If they haven't searched at all, which is what the question above indicates, they have no right to an answer. They are showing up for class without doing even the most rudimentary of homework first. | |
| Sep 29, 2011 at 3:16 | history | answered | Joel Spolsky | CC BY-SA 3.0 |