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From: Sadik on 15 Feb 2010 06:17 Hello, I would like to make a suggestion about making a new column called "Originally posted by" or some other shorter name. Reasons: 1. If a person asks a question, and then he makes a correction in it before anyone answers it, the number of replies seems to be 1, am I wrong? Then, one could say "OK, this has been handled.". 2. If the post has, say, 15 replies, then it is still not clear if the last one belongs to the original poster and his problem has been resolved. 3. Everyone may not, and I do not, have enough time to go through each and every single post. Hopefully many other people and I would be very happy to have a column like that and it seems there is lots of space for it. If there has been a discussion about this before and I have missed it, apologies in advance. Thanks.
From: John D'Errico on 15 Feb 2010 06:39 "Sadik " <sadik.hava(a)gmail.com> wrote in message <hlbafe$epl$1(a)fred.mathworks.com>... > Hello, > > I would like to make a suggestion about making a new column called "Originally posted by" or some other shorter name. Reasons: > > 1. If a person asks a question, and then he makes a correction in it before anyone answers it, the number of replies seems to be 1, am I wrong? Then, one could say "OK, this has been handled.". > > 2. If the post has, say, 15 replies, then it is still not clear if the last one belongs to the original poster and his problem has been resolved. > > 3. Everyone may not, and I do not, have enough time to go through each and every single post. > > Hopefully many other people and I would be very happy to have a column like that and it seems there is lots of space for it. > > If there has been a discussion about this before and I have missed it, apologies in advance. > > Thanks. The fact that a person replies to their own post does NOT indicate they have solved it! It often merely says they realized they made a error in their first post, and they wish to clarify some point. It may be they just wish their question to rise again to the top of the queue so that someone will notice it. If people use a good, accurate subject title, then it is far easier to know whether to read something. This is a better solution, that requires no software fix at all. John
From: Doug Schwarz on 15 Feb 2010 08:25 In article <hlbbom$6o5$1(a)fred.mathworks.com>, "John D'Errico" <woodchips(a)rochester.rr.com> wrote: > "Sadik " <sadik.hava(a)gmail.com> wrote in message > <hlbafe$epl$1(a)fred.mathworks.com>... > > Hello, > > > > I would like to make a suggestion about making a new column called > > "Originally posted by" or some other shorter name. Reasons: > > > > 1. If a person asks a question, and then he makes a correction in it before > > anyone answers it, the number of replies seems to be 1, am I wrong? Then, > > one could say "OK, this has been handled.". > > > > 2. If the post has, say, 15 replies, then it is still not clear if the last > > one belongs to the original poster and his problem has been resolved. > > > > 3. Everyone may not, and I do not, have enough time to go through each and > > every single post. > > > > Hopefully many other people and I would be very happy to have a column like > > that and it seems there is lots of space for it. > > > > If there has been a discussion about this before and I have missed it, > > apologies in advance. > > > > Thanks. > > The fact that a person replies to their own post does > NOT indicate they have solved it! It often merely says > they realized they made a error in their first post, and > they wish to clarify some point. It may be they just > wish their question to rise again to the top of the > queue so that someone will notice it. Hi John, That's exactly what he is saying, that the existence of a second post might indicate (incorrectly) that someone has already answered the question. I find the opposite to be true -- that perfectly well answered questions get answered again and again. <Shrug> I guess some people have so much time on their hands that they can't resist. -- Doug Schwarz dmschwarz&ieee,org Make obvious changes to get real email address.
From: Jan Simon on 15 Feb 2010 08:56 Dear Sadik! Even a "Solved" flag would not satisfy all needs. Sometimes the OP thought the problem is solved, but some experts mention important limitations of the presented solution, e.g. if inputs are empty, NaN, Inf or for repeated elements. Kind regards, Jan
From: John D'Errico on 15 Feb 2010 09:22
"Jan Simon" <matlab.THIS_YEAR(a)nMINUSsimon.de> wrote in message <hlbjpj$869$1(a)fred.mathworks.com>... > Dear Sadik! > > Even a "Solved" flag would not satisfy all needs. Sometimes the OP thought the problem is solved, but some experts mention important limitations of the presented solution, e.g. if inputs are empty, NaN, Inf or for repeated elements. > > Kind regards, Jan Exactly. A response to a post does not mean that it is done with. A response might be completely wrong, something that often happens on the internet. I saw a basic rootfinding question answered by multiple people the other day on StackOverFlow, all of whom failed to point out that fzero was the answer. Some suggested writing a code in Matlab to do bisection, a couple of suggestions for Newton's method, two people suggested Fsolve. Nobody bothered to mention that fzero is the tool in matlab for this problem. The OP might respond to their own post and say they thought they had the answer. Many times this is still wrong. Even sometimes when a response is perfectly correct, it is appropriate to expand on a response to add some valuable fact. John |