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Answer by Daniel Darabos for Is it OK to answer vague, unclear questions?

I have seen a few questions closed for this reason where I disagreed. Let's say there is a question like:How do I debug a program?It is stupidly generic and shows zero research effort. But I think it...

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Answer by wwwmarty for Is it OK to answer vague, unclear questions?

I think the tooltips on the Up/Down Vote arrows answer your question. Good job for taking a stab at providing a useful answer, but feel free to down vote it as well.New SO user here, and just noticed...

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Answer by Robert Harvey for Is it OK to answer vague, unclear questions?

If you understand what the OP is asking, and the question is reasonably answerable, then answer it. This generally works out better if you are an expert in the subject matter. Some questions are clear...

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Is it OK to answer vague, unclear questions?

I answered this question recently. The question was pretty vague, not clearly stated, and (in my opinion) didn't show much research effort. However, I knew how to fix what I thought their problem was,...

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