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MWEs and their wrongly assumed place in the question
Asked 3 years, 4 months ago
Modified 3 years, 3 months ago
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Purpose: To improve the user experience of the visitors of TeX.SX (who most likely provide the majority of the traffic), in exchange for the slight detriment of that of the questioners and answerers.
It is a common practice in this community to request MWEs in questions without it. My personal observation is that they are usually taken as the actual question rather than just an example. I think this severely hurts the usefulness of the community as a resource.
Many questions here do not have an answer. The "answers" in them provide solutions targeting only the particular instance in the example, sometimes going completely against the question body and title.
Questioners can use the checkmark to designate which "response" resolved their troubles, not to choose which "answer" answers the question the best. This can create the illusion of answered questions, although in reality they are resolved problems of the individuals, which isn't what the StackExchange communities, and Q&A in general is about.
Exhibit A
Coloring a node after its creation
A couple of things are very detrimental for the user experience with this Q&A:
The answer is incomprehensible to human eye.
MWE of the questioner is 48 lines. Accepted answer? 62 lines of code, no text.
The "answer" is not an answer to the question.
The question clearly specifies that the coloring should be done "after creation", even in title. Required me to have a diff to find out that answer actually completely ignores that request.
The questioner is not to blame for their lengthy WE either. A true MWE to that question would be the following, silly as it is:
MARK MY ANSWER THE BRAINLIEST PLEASE PLEASE THEN I WILL FOLLOW YOU
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MWEs and their wrongly assumed place in the question
Asked 3 years, 4 months ago
Modified 3 years, 3 months ago
Viewed 1k times
-2
Purpose: To improve the user experience of the visitors of TeX.SX (who most likely provide the majority of the traffic), in exchange for the slight detriment of that of the questioners and answerers.
It is a common practice in this community to request MWEs in questions without it. My personal observation is that they are usually taken as the actual question rather than just an example. I think this severely hurts the usefulness of the community as a resource.
Many questions here do not have an answer. The "answers" in them provide solutions targeting only the particular instance in the example, sometimes going completely against the question body and title.
Questioners can use the checkmark to designate which "response" resolved their troubles, not to choose which "answer" answers the question the best. This can create the illusion of answered questions, although in reality they are resolved problems of the individuals, which isn't what the StackExchange communities, and Q&A in general is about.
Exhibit A
Coloring a node after its creation
A couple of things are very detrimental for the user experience with this Q&A:
The answer is incomprehensible to human eye.
MWE of the questioner is 48 lines. Accepted answer? 62 lines of code, no text.
The "answer" is not an answer to the question.
The question clearly specifies that the coloring should be done "after creation", even in title. Required me to have a diff to find out that answer actually completely ignores that request.
The questioner is not to blame for their lengthy WE either. A true MWE to that question would be the following, silly as it is:
MARK MY ANSWER THE BRAINLIEST PLEASE PLEASE THEN I WILL FOLLOW YOU
Hey Kiran!
Here's your answer:
Here are four LaTeX code snippets for different formatting options:
1. Italicized text:
```latex
\textit{Wrong answer will be reported immediately}
```
This code will display the phrase in italic font.
2. Underlined text:
```latex
\underline{Wrong answer will be reported immediately}
```
This code will display the phrase with an underline.
3. Bold and italicized text:
```latex
\textbf{\textit{Wrong answer will be reported immediately}}
```
This code will display the phrase in both bold and italic font.
4. Colored text:
```latex
\textcolor{red}{Wrong answer will be reported immediately}
```
This code will display the phrase in red color.
You can use these code snippets as needed within your LaTeX document. Let me know if there's anything else I can help you with!
Hope that helped you!
Seize the day with a smile! :)
- A r i a