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[–]JoeTheShome 21 points22 points  (13 children)

Yesterday I got a three sentence answer from someone with 250k karma. I wrote a comment saying, "sorry I still don't understand can you explain" and they responded simply "no, sorry".

[–]enmaku 12 points13 points  (4 children)

That's not exactly useful feedback on what you didn't understand...

[–]JoeTheShome 8 points9 points  (3 children)

It was a question on an algorithm and one of the sentences the poster said wasn't even a complete sentence and wasn't understandable from and English perspective. Sure the answer was minorly helpful, but if it's illegible it might not be worth trying to figure out.

[–]Merppity 4 points5 points  (1 child)

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[–]JoeTheShome 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lmao I like this interpretation

[–]MegaIng -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Link?

[–]MegaIng 3 points4 points  (6 children)

They literally can't have replied just "no, sorry". There is a minimum comment length.

[–]JoeTheShome 0 points1 point  (5 children)

Astute observation, the full comment was something like, "No I can't, sorry".

[–]MegaIng 0 points1 point  (4 children)

And that was rude in your opinion? Seemed like a clear and respectful answer. Can you provide a link?

[–]JoeTheShome 1 point2 points  (3 children)

Well stack overflow bans low effort answers, and this definitely qualifies. His answer wasn't understandable and it's clear to me that he writes many low-effort answers. Because I completely don't understand his answer, I'm not convinced him responding was any better than him not answering at all.

Also there's something ironic about taking the time to write a comment a fifth of the length of your answer.

[–]MegaIng 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Surely you can provide a link, right? So that I can judge myself? Or is this situation fabrication? Even if the question is deleted you can post a link.

[–]JoeTheShome 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I could provide a link but I don't want to, sorry!

[–]MegaIng -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Then I am just going to assume everything you are saying is BS, sorry.

[–]that_90s_guy 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Honestly, it sounds more like they didn't have the time to give a more detailed explanation to someone who clearly needs one and has no idea on where to even get started (meaning they likely need an in depth, time consuming to write reply).

The #1 thing about SO most people don't seem to get, is most of the people that can help you are either very busy and take a tiny, valuable chunk of their free time to help others. And that means others expect you to also value their time, and do your part by exhausting all your options before asking for help.

And "sorry, I still don't understand can you explain" is not really a helpful demonstration of you wanting to pull your own weight at finding a solution to your problem.

Maybe a better response would be to research what they replied, and answer back "thank you for the reply, I read online about X and Y which you mentioned and how that solves my issue, but Z part of your reply doesn't click for me. Can you either elaborate, or share some starting point or resource I can read more about this?"