Timeline for List Questions: Try 3
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| May 7, 2018 at 14:42 | comment | added | Anne Daunted GoFundMonica | It's certainly true that lists that are too long are hard to read on SE, but it's still possible - maybe the most extreme example. I don't remember coming across a list question on Parenting.SE where problems should arise. Many one-line answers are also not easy to read, or somewhat longer list-answers that partially overlap. One reason I favor CW is that you won't gain reputation for it anymore. | |
| May 7, 2018 at 14:27 | comment | added | Joe | (cont.) But that's not to say it's not one possible answer - perhaps it's better than the alternatives (either not allowing them, or allowing them sometimes). That was my original intent in asking this (three years ago at this point, so I guess nobody else had much to say about it :) ) | |
| May 7, 2018 at 14:26 | comment | added | Joe | @AnneDaunted I think Stack Exchange made design choices that are centered around short to medium sized answers. You're not wrong that good use of formatting can help, but I don't think Stack Exchange answers that are more than one "screen" are very easy to read. In particular, answers that are "lists" don't have a lot of options - we can't do tables very easily for example, and just long bullet pointed lists get hard to read individual items from. You also have the issue that some implementation issues exist related to combining multiple things together in Markdown. | |
| May 4, 2018 at 17:36 | comment | added | Anne Daunted GoFundMonica | "Disadvantage: it's impossible to read (it's one big answer)" With good formatting (clever use of font sizes, spaces, lines etc.), why should one long answer be worse to read than several shorter ones? You could also keep several short answers in a CW list-type question. | |
| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:41 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Mar 16, 2017 at 15:47 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://meta.parenting.stackexchange.com/ with https://parenting.meta.stackexchange.com/
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| Jun 26, 2015 at 7:51 | comment | added | user11394 | I think more examples would be helpful, both of good and bad list questions. To me, a good list question is one I can answer without a list of things (specific books for 3 year olds), but with a list of qualities to look for (such as selection criteria to help someone figure out what's a good book for 3 year old on their own). | |
| Jun 19, 2015 at 22:27 | comment | added | Joe | More the discussion and the actual policy, but examples in action also seem useful. | |
| Jun 19, 2015 at 22:24 | comment | added | anongoodnurse Mod | Do you mean like this? Or do you mean the discussion? | |
| Jun 19, 2015 at 21:45 | history | asked | Joe | CC BY-SA 3.0 |