Timeline for Extending questions and answers gradually
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:58 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Aug 13, 2014 at 18:23 | comment | added | Eric Wofsey | As an example, this question asks whether a category with a certain property exists, and the empty category has that property. If the only answer given had been that the empty category was an example, then it would have been perfectly fine for the asker to edit the question to ask whether there was also a non-empty example. | |
| Aug 13, 2014 at 18:11 | comment | added | Eric Wofsey | I think some minor changes to a question are perfectly acceptable. For instance, if it turns out that in your original formulation, your question admits some trivial counterexample that is orthogonal to the issues you are actually interested in, I would recommend editing the question to exclude the trivial case (or to ask for further examples) rather than making a whole new question. | |
| Aug 12, 2014 at 23:42 | comment | added | Gerry Myerson | Similar question under discussion at m.se, meta.math.stackexchange.com/questions/16571/… | |
| Aug 12, 2014 at 23:33 | comment | added | Gerry Myerson | If I am the answerer, and the questioner changes the question, I ask the questioner to go away and come back when he has figured out what question he really wants to ask. But others are less short-tempered than I am. | |
| Aug 12, 2014 at 21:33 | comment | added | Will Jagy | If you are the one asking the question, you can also put comments under answers at the first question giving a link to the new question. If there turns out to be sufficient common interest, perhaps you have found a collaborator, even co-author. | |
| Aug 12, 2014 at 20:30 | comment | added | Todd Trimble Mod | It's cleaner to pose a new question, referring back to the old question as desired. | |
| Aug 12, 2014 at 19:43 | comment | added | Gil Kalai | I think its ok to add an uodate with a new version of the question. "should I extend my answer or give several answers?" Both options are OK. | |
| Aug 12, 2014 at 16:15 | comment | added | Gerald Edgar | I would say: pose a new question. Don't change the question to turn answers into non-answers. | |
| Aug 12, 2014 at 15:11 | history | asked | Joonas Ilmavirta | CC BY-SA 3.0 |