Online question-answering services are unreliable
In my experience,[1][2][3][4][5] online question-answering services like Stack Exchange and LessWrong's questions feature work around half of the time.
Some services like Quora are even less reliable; I would say Quora probably gives good answers to less than 1% of questions I've asked.
See also
- Unreliability of online question-answering services makes it emotionally taxing to write up questions
- Ongoing friendship and collaboration is important -- one way to get around the unreliability of online services is to have more collaborators you can bounce ideas off of
References
- ↑ https://math.stackexchange.com/users/35525/riceissa?tab=questions
- ↑ https://stats.stackexchange.com/users/273265/riceissa?tab=questions
- ↑ https://ai.stackexchange.com/users/33930/riceissa?tab=questions
- ↑ https://biology.stackexchange.com/users/56456/riceissa?tab=questions
- ↑ https://www.lesswrong.com/users/riceissa