Timeline for Why did I waste time answering a question on Medical Sciences SE?
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| Mar 8, 2023 at 17:25 | comment | added | Bryan Krause Mod | @Castedo The site's software is designed to support StackOverflow. That's the cash cow that keeps us all here. Even very modest requests for software changes for a small site like MedicalSciences go to the very bottom of the barrel. There is nothing that the actual people that are here can do about it. A much larger problem is the constant parade of medical advice questions, which persist despite the company adding a very large disclaimer. Turns out even when you provide the information, people either don't read it or think it doesn't apply to them. | |
| Mar 8, 2023 at 14:40 | comment | added | Carey Gregory Mod | You've posted in a few sites, none of them science or academia. This site's policy is not unusual. | |
| Mar 8, 2023 at 12:12 | comment | added | Castedo | StackExchange is not a new land for me. All the other SE sites I have posted answers to and the UI of StackExchange is not consistent with the culture and land you have in this SE. Specifically, a process where you don't state the requirements of answers, then after posters have written answers you tell them the requirements and if they are not met then you delete the answers. It's a bad design, a waste of posters time and worthy of critique. | |
| Mar 8, 2023 at 4:36 | comment | added | Carey Gregory Mod | That guidance you see when you post a question here isn't controlled by us. We tried to change what you see on the main site and SE wouldn't accept it. They wrote it, not us. Instead of just criticizing us, how about you get involved and spend some time learning why the rules are what they are? They weren't arrived at easily. And you should know that this rule you think is so unusual is actually very common on the science and academic sites. Your answer would have been deleted on many of them. It's best to learn the culture when visiting a new land before criticizing people who live there. | |
| Mar 8, 2023 at 2:44 | comment | added | Castedo | Regarding not having control to message the requirements, I find it hard to believe that you have no way to provide a message about requirements to posters BEFORE they post an answer. How about putting template text inside the starter text like what I saw posting this meta question. You are using the site software optimized to encourage posting answers without requirements and then you complain that answers don't meet requirements and delete the work people did. Why don't you try to learn to use the SE site software and prevent this waste of people's time? | |
| Mar 7, 2023 at 22:54 | comment | added | Castedo | And no, I do not care to spend more time on answers that meet your requirements. I regret spending time on this SE and do not plan to spend more time on it in the future. | |
| Mar 7, 2023 at 22:52 | comment | added | Castedo | Your suspicion that I "could have found a reference or two in the time you spent writing this post." is false. Before posting my answer I probably spent 15 minutes or so searching my reference and the web., but did not find a reference that directly supports what I remember learning in the past. | |
| Mar 7, 2023 at 22:40 | history | answered | Carey GregoryMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |