Extending questions and answers gradually - MathOverflow Meta most recent 30 from meta.mathoverflow.net 2019-07-19T19:42:47Z https://meta.mathoverflow.net/feeds/question/1845 http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/rdf https://meta.mathoverflow.net/q/1845 10 Extending questions and answers gradually Joonas Ilmavirta https://meta.mathoverflow.net/users/55893 2014-08-12T15:11:21Z 2014-08-12T15:11:21Z <p>If someone answers my question and I want to generalize it, how should I do it? Is it ok to gradually extend my question as answers improve? An answer to a question I wanted to ask may show me that I really wanted something else, whence asking just what I need is not always possible. (This is especially true of research related questions, which should be the ones we want here anyway.) Is there a good principle for deciding whether to extend an old question or to make a new one?</p> <p>From the other perspective, if someone keeps extending their question, should I extend my answer or give several answers?</p> <p>Something of this kind happened with <a href="https://mathoverflow.net/questions/176720/bmo-spaces-on-the-torus">this question</a> that I answered recently and it left me thinking.</p>
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