> It's highly presumptious to assume you know better than the person asking.
But SO is a QA site - you are only supposed to answer if you indeed know better than the person asking!
I acknowledge there is a grey area with the so called XY question, where the questioner ask about one thing but actually want to achieve something different. But in such cases the correct approach is, in my opinion, to help the OP solve the actual problem they have, not lead them down the wrong path.
But SO is a QA site - you are only supposed to answer if you indeed know better than the person asking!
I acknowledge there is a grey area with the so called XY question, where the questioner ask about one thing but actually want to achieve something different. But in such cases the correct approach is, in my opinion, to help the OP solve the actual problem they have, not lead them down the wrong path.