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How much time should be spent searching for a solution before asking a question in the forum?
Don't waste time searching-just ask
6%
A few minutes or 1-2 searches
21%
A few hours, most Qs aren't unique
40%
Days-asking for help is last resort
14%
Infinite. I'll never ask a question
20%
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I voted for the 'few hours' option but for the last question I asked, I spent couple of days trying to find an answer. Anyway, this is just an outreach comment for more people to see my unsolved question :)
Most of the time it takes a little research to fully understand what it is we are trying to solve. So, the research is to see what other similar problems others have investigated. So, then you can explain more precisely your problem and get better answers and quicker responses.
most easy questions are not worthy asking, you can find them in 2 minutes of google.
most hard questions are also not worthy asking, few will have the 'ready' answer, fewer will be willing to actually answer. you will likely get no answer, it's the type of question you should look for answers in papers, not forums.
in the end the only questions worth trying to ask for help are those you don't even know where to start your search. desperate questions, really.
I think the question entirely depends on your situation. Like if you forgot very silly thing then you should not waste your time to recall it. But if you are pursung your career particulary in computation field and you have time to think about the solution then don't post or ask any question. Then only you can create something new.
I usually serach for half an hour to one hour, and if I can't find anything even close to what I'm looking for, I'll ask.
It's purely selfish. Asking on the forum isn't going to get you an answer quickly, googling will most likely get you the answer quickly.
Do folks search their questions on Mathworks? I always end up using google to search my questions and expect to find my results showing MATLAB Central posts. Maybe I should just cut out the middle man and search here directly.
I just recalled this similar poll
Good question (maybe this should be a poll)!
I use a custom search engine along with MATLAB Central search directives to search the Answers forum. For example, I start by typing "mlans" in my Chrome address bar. This custom key word tells chrome to search the Answers forum. Then I continue typing my query.
I also have one for the File Exchange.
The next most frequent method I use is google, followed by searching directly from MATLAB Central.
I tend to give up from the get-go. Mathworks is not a search engine builder, and judging by the results I have when I try, it is a non-trivial task. The problem is that finding what I mean is often similar (but not quite) to what I write in the search box.
It is nice to have the directives for when I know who wrote the question, but the search is often not fuzzy enough for me. I don't begrudge anyone who's working on the search engine, because everybody has gotten used to the excellent results you get from the big boys (at least once you scroll past the advertised results).
I have resorted to keeping a list of links for things that are hard to find and/or I use regularly (but not often enough to bookmark it).
Wow this is a great idea! I always end up using the Chrome address bar to search for matlab topics and most of the time end up typing "matlab" first anyways. Just created a custom search for that use case, thanks!
I usually look for a few hours before starting a question. As I build up the question, I continue to search and try things. After a few days without resolution I'm ready to post. I haven't got there yet.
Most recently, my question was "How can I merge nested cell row vectors of cell row vectors*?". I wanted to build a 1xn (or nx1) list of solutions (in this case strings) from a recursive function where each call may itself return a list, and the calling function modifies the recursive returns (in this case by prepending strings). Turns out the answer is [nested_vector{:}]. That expression makes NO sense to me, but it does close enough to what I need. It de-nests exactly one deep. If the cell vector only has non-cells, it tries to merge their contents. In the case of a row vector of strings, it makes one big string with no spaces.
- * (column vectors of column vectors would have also worked)
There is an error in the poll.
The question is "How much time SHOULD be spent..." and the last answer is "Infinte. I'll never ask a question".
After reading the last answer people might think it is about what you actually do and not what you should do.
(Also the time span between a few minutes and hours is probably too big. I think the right answer is somewhere between these two answers.)
I agree w/ @Walter Roberson that I find the searching facility to be of little help -- I've got a bunch of things I know I've posted over the years and while I'm not even close to the volume Walter has, I never think to create a database of "things that might be useful again" so I rarely can find the post of interest even when I know it was mine.
The paucity of results per page that I've complained about since the introduction doesn't help; it just takes too long to page down page after page to make that feasilble --and the Q? titles, since are posted by the original poster are, as often as not, not even related to the real subject and remembering how it was posted is impossible.
It's the latter I think that limits the usefulness of the search engine as compared to googlesearch as much as anything, I think...it has a lot better chance the title subject matches the content and has a much larger viable population from which to choose. I've posited also since almost the beginning there needs to be more structure/restrictions placed on the title/subject.
Similar limitations hold for tags...the user doesn't have a clue most time -- I have a hard time coming up with those even for my own Q? despite 30+ year w/ MATLAB to make them really pertinent.
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