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Some of the advice given in answers here is very sketchy. People keep saying that they try to make their answers as brief and as short as possible. However, the Stack Exchange guidelines in the hel...
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2019-12-08T08:06:29Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision
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2019-12-08T08:06:29Z (almost 5 years ago)
Some of the advice given in answers here is very sketchy. People keep saying that they try to make their answers as brief and as short as possible. However, [the Stack Exchange guidelines in the help center are pretty clear about the place of brevity in a Stack Exchange answer](https://writing.stackexchange.com/help/how-to-answer): > Any answer that gets the asker going in the right direction is helpful, but do try to mention any limitations, assumptions or simplifications in your answer. **Brevity is acceptable, but fuller explanations are better.** Writing purposefully short answers is the opposite of what people should be doing, particularly on subjective sites where, again, [the official guidelines](https://stackoverflow.blog/2010/09/29/good-subjective-bad-subjective/) advise that answers to subjective questions should be "long, not short."
#1: Imported from external source
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2018-03-05T14:51:39Z (over 6 years ago)
Original score: 7