There have been a lot of one or two line answers (very brief) on the main site. Most of them, almost all of them IMO, only suggest one or two things to do and never explain why they would work. Though, such answers might be correct, but since sometimes they get upvoted and stick around longer, it...
We are trying our very best to remove low quality answers from our site. But there are no clear guidelines on what we, as a community, consider to be a good answer.
So let's try and make a few guidelines on how to write answers on IPS questions and what every answer should contain or discuss.
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A couple months ago, we had a discussion about Should we be more strict about one-line answers?. The verdict was that yes, we should be enforcing stricter standards on the answers on this site. Great! That means that we can keep our quality high, and new answers have been deleted accordingly.
Bu...
I had an interesting chat with @Catija yesterday. She stated:
This is something I've argued with the Cooking mods for over a year. If an answer has even a whiff of an actual answer, they decline NAA flags. So, with my time spent there, I have to decide whether I think we should follow them o...
We have had a couple of questions that ask about ways to deal with interactions with others. These questions are perfectly on topic here because they are asking about interpersonal issues.
Sometimes, these questions may have solutions that are less about what is "polite" or "rude" or some other ...
Once in a while I get coffee from nearby shop.
Lot of times, the ladies at the counter are rude --- especially to me because I look like a soft target.
Really, I am not confrontational unless I am at the end of my rope (on a side note, my co-workers were surprised when I was assertive and nearl...
I'm in my late teens, and my mom is close friends with my best friend's mom, so she knows my best friend - "Abigail" - quite well. My mother thinks that "Abigail" is "boy-crazy." For my part, I think "Abigail" is just extremely extroverted, and I see little-to-no difference between the way she ac...
About a year ago, I did an informational interview with a friend of a friend. We connected on LinkedIn shortly after, and I did a basic follow-up "thanks for meeting with me" email, but we haven't had any contact since then.
I'm now planning to apply to a position in the same department she wo...
Occasionally people ask questions like:
Is it polite if I do/say X?
Sometimes these questions are closed (the reasons for closure are often varied) and sometimes they are left open. In my mind, these two example questions are very similar; they both ask if a certain action is polite, and t...
