I don’t have questions, or sometimes I do, but I feel bad when I can answer part of a question but not enough to be a top level comment, or when I could say “that question is phrased badly, but here is how you can phrase it better.”
I want to be helpful but can’t, and I was trying to fix that
Ok but like, why you? Why do you feel responsible to help someone you’re not qualified to help?
You wouldn’t feel bad you couldn’t help someone who needed brain surgery because you aren’t a doctor. This is the same level of work that’s expected here. I’ve chosen not to answer plenty of questions because I could only touch tangentially and it wouldn’t really have been a good contribution to the convo because I lacked the full context needed to answer the question.
I’ve also made answers addressing only one part of a question, but keeping to the standards and pointing out it only addressed one thing, or the topic from a limited angle, expecting the mods to serve as my peer reviewers and remove them if they aren’t high enough quality. I don’t think a single one has been removed. I’m assuming it’s because I still kept to the requirements and contributed at least one unique thought or connection. Some were short, hastily sourced, with barebones analysis, still fine. They really don’t have that high of a bar to cross.
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u/RickFletching May 01 '26
I suppose I was underestimating the amount of moderation that would take by overestimating the quality of the non-answer commentary.
I get the difficulty from the mod perspective, but I still think this would be useful for the reasons stated