Timeline for Why didn't the two Biffs go into shock?
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| Oct 23, 2015 at 23:32 | vote | accept | Often Right | ||
| Oct 21, 2015 at 14:26 | comment | added | Praxis | There is nothing wrong with answering your own question. You are providing a service to everyone by sharing your knowledge, and both the question and answer are great. "Having the chance to answer" is not the point of the site. The point of the site is to build up a bank of knowledge, in a Q&A form. | |
| Oct 21, 2015 at 6:32 | comment | added | Often Right | RE Self Q/As: blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/07/… | |
| Oct 21, 2015 at 5:49 | comment | added | Major Stackings | @TheDoc But still, you were not wrong in asking and answering. | |
| Oct 21, 2015 at 2:56 | comment | added | Often Right | @RedactedStack It's probably a fairer way of operating I agree | |
| Oct 21, 2015 at 2:30 | comment | added | Hypnosifl | If any downvoters are reading this, I'd say that if you respect the rules of the site, you shouldn't vote based on personal likes or dislikes that aren't relevant to the quality of questions/answers themselves--as explained in this part of the help center, the point of voting is that the more people vote, "the more certain future visitors can be of the quality of information contained within that post", and that "voting down a post signals ... that the post contains wrong information, is poorly researched, or fails to communicate information". | |
| Oct 21, 2015 at 1:31 | comment | added | Major Stackings | Perhaps, I say perhaps, even though asking questions that you know the answer to is encouraged, answering it yourself before anyone has a chance to post an answer gives people a cheated feeling? I suggest letting the pixels dry prior to closing the loop. | |
| Oct 21, 2015 at 0:55 | comment | added | phantom42 | guidelines and policy are one thing, but we've seen it before - some people just don't like it. richard has seen it with a few of his questions. i don't see anything wrong with this question, myself. | |
| Oct 20, 2015 at 23:24 | comment | added | Hypnosifl | The guidelines in the help center explicitly encourage people to answer their own questions, and to ask questions they already know the answer to for the purpose of having the answer be "on the record" so to speak. | |
| Oct 20, 2015 at 23:23 | comment | added | Politank-Z | Not one of the downvoters, but perhaps the question and answer's presence in the FAQ indicates to the downvoters that the question "doesn't show research effort"? | |
| Oct 20, 2015 at 23:19 | comment | added | Often Right | @phantom42 I appreciate that (although I disagree with it), but as a question itself is there anything wrong with it? | |
| Oct 20, 2015 at 23:00 | comment | added | phantom42 | some people don't like self-answered questions when they're answered immediately with the question. | |
| Oct 20, 2015 at 22:59 | comment | added | Often Right | @Hypnosifl the question now is, why did two people downvote this question ;) | |
| Oct 20, 2015 at 22:56 | comment | added | Hypnosifl | Why did someone downvote this question? If Gale and Zemeckis thought it was worth addressing in the FAQ, presumably it's a good question... | |
| S Oct 20, 2015 at 22:48 | answer | added | Often Right | timeline score: 13 | |
| S Oct 20, 2015 at 22:48 | history | asked | Often Right | CC BY-SA 3.0 |