What is meta? ×  How can we deal with people who use SO as an
interactive debugging session?  The typical scenario is that a
user (typically low rep or far more questions than answers)
posts some a answer to their homework assignment (typically hard
to read with poor formatting) with a question like "X doesn't
work". You tell them why X doesn't work, revealing problem Y.
You tell them why Y doesn't work, revealing problem Z. Repeat ad
nauseum.  I don't mind answering such questions, but this sort
of question doesn't attract much interest and the users asking
often don't know about up-voting or choosing correct answers,
meaning that I'm lucky to get any rep at all.  Furthermore, the
"answer" ends up reading like a conversation, making the post
generally useless to anybody who isn't working on that homework
assignment.  Should I keep doing what I'm doing? Should I tell
them to post each separate problem as a new question? Should I
tell them to ask in a chat room?  share|improve this question
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