| ▲ | zahlman a day ago | |
That's largely because the OP couldn't clearly describe a specific situation to ask about (the question underlying the problem, but also a clearly recognizable, reproducible example); and solving your problem might depend on things that are different in your setup vs. the OP's. That's the thing, though. Stack Overflow is not and never was intended to solve your problem, nor to solve the OP's problem. It was intended to answer questions. It was your responsibility, both as someone posting a question and as someone reading the Q&A later, to adapt knowledge to your circumstances. That's why they're called questions and answers, and are not called problems and solutions. People who use a web site to get a solution to a problem are looking for a help desk, or a forum. Stack Overflow was specifically created to be not that, and that choice was specifically motivated by the frustration people had with trying to search those kinds of sites for information, and the frustration that experts had with trying to help people (for free) in that kind of environment. | ||