Re: Do we need to get "in your face" about readmore-tags?

There does seem to be an art to posting Just the Right Amount of Code, i.e., the magical twenty lines that distill the problem down to its essence with not a single line wasted on irrelevant crap.

Problem is, the same people who will be the best at this will also tend to be the ones who already knew the answer in the first place. Funny how that works.

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Re^2: Do we need to get "in your face" about readmore-tags? by GrandFather (Saint) on Feb 14, 2012 at 20:05 UTC
The people who are best don't "already knew the answer". It's simply that they are likely to find the answer they are seeking in the process of refactoring the code to show the issue in a succinct fashion. One reason we encourage such refactoring is exactly so the potential poster develops the skills to be able to focus on an issue and isolate the problem. True laziness is hard work	[reply]