Answer by Erik Funkenbusch for Should new users be asking questions on Stack...
Here's a thought... Maybe Stack Overflow's mobile app should add features that make it easier for users to ask complete and high quality programming questions from a mobile device? Maybe add features...
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Given enough time, I would assume that any quality question could be typed out on a device provided that the device allows to type out symbols present in the allowed formatting syntax.Consider this...
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As Bart said, we should get some data to see if mobile use is actually predictive of question quality.Assuming the data says it is, I think the easiest solution is to add mobile use to the question...
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There are plenty of good programming questions that don't directly involve code. Here's a few top-voted questions from the tags I frequent:Does Swift have access modifiers?Why create “Implicitly...
View ArticleAnswer by Nicolas Holthaus for Should new users be asking questions on Stack...
Mobile devices today may be difficult to write good questions on. A few years ago, it was virtually impossible. In 2-5 years? Maybe they'll be more powerful or even have completely replaced traditional...
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You're right. We should ban them, because the platform they choose to post from dictates the legitimacy of their question.
View ArticleAnswer by Ben Voigt for Should new users be asking questions on Stack...
As you say, it is next to impossible to ask good programming questions from a handheld device (I agree that SO is quite different from, for example, travel.SE). Valid mobile use cases involve searching...
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Verifying answers which contain code from a mobile application is at the very least problematic, and at worst impossible.On Stack Overflow, asking a question is supposed to be based on a specific...
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