Answer by Ryan_C for Removing phrases like "I looked everywhere on the...
Personally, I think it's unfair to attack people who come to this site looking for help if they are legitimately looking for help. In my case, I'm not the best programmer in the world; I have a LOT of...
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When I started asking questions on the internet, I used to write phrases like that. I actually did some search but as a french native speaker, it would took me nearly 1 hour to explain what I did in...
View ArticleAnswer by Pietro Braione for Removing phrases like "I looked everywhere on...
I agree that in most cases the "I have tried my best" disclaimer conveys no useful information, but in some cases it does, e.g. whenThe question has an apparent easy answer that can quickly be found...
View ArticleAnswer by apaul for Removing phrases like "I looked everywhere on the...
Those phrases are there because people pester them to search google before coming to Stack Overflow. -George StockerI think George has a point here... But I think it points to another problem....
View ArticleAnswer by Luis Masuelli for Removing phrases like "I looked everywhere on the...
IMHO these sentences are totally useless help-wise, yet useful "review-wise". However, there's a blurry line here. Many times a related framework is not well-known or badly documented (e.g. OpenERP 7),...
View ArticleAnswer by JDB still remembers Monica for Removing phrases like "I looked...
You should edit a post to improve the quality of the post.With that in mind:For the question written by someone who has searched the entirety of the known Internet for how to create a regex to parse an...
View ArticleAnswer by jnel899 for Removing phrases like "I looked everywhere on the...
This is exactly that kind of thing that irks me on this site. People are putting phrases like that in because they are AFRAID of the aggressive portion of the Stack Overflow community that often...
View ArticleAnswer by Douglas Mitchell Jr. for Removing phrases like "I looked everywhere...
Note that the statement "I have tried everything," and they give an amount of code, may have edited pieces of code and you may not see the older pieces of code then what is shown.
View ArticleAnswer by Giacomo1968 for Removing phrases like "I looked everywhere on the...
I assume good faith when I edit a post to remove casual tone. So I generally don’t edit out the, “I Google for hours and now I have lost my family, can you help me?” stuff unless it is truly set...
View ArticleAnswer by George Stocker for Removing phrases like "I looked everywhere on...
Those phrases are there because people pester them to search google before coming to Stack Overflow. They're useless phrases (except to appease those that want to know that they've searched before...
View ArticleAnswer by Brett for Removing phrases like "I looked everywhere on the...
If you take them out then other people reviewing their question don't know the person asking has actually put some effort into finding the answer before posing the question - and hence may lead to...
View ArticleAnswer by Martin James for Removing phrases like "I looked everywhere on the...
If you edit them out, subsequent contributors visiting the question will waste more time before downCloseVoting. Leave them in.
View ArticleRemoving phrases like "I looked everywhere on the internet and I did not find...
I have been habitually removing statements like the one in this question's title when I edit to improve a question much the same as I remove 'Thanks', 'Kind sir' and other general salutations. I do not...
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