Why didn't you answer with Yes/No?

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Why didn’t you answer with No?

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  • I thought this answer was great.

  • “Is Scrapbox a blog?” is a question that would try to answer with “Yes/No”.

  • It’s amazing how you summarized what the blog was about, what its purpose was and what the challenges were, and developed what the future is in that context.

• Why didn’t I answer this question with a Yes/No?” The mystery of “Why didn’t I answer Yes/No to this question?
• It looked to me like it was because they were already thinking ahead. - I made a note that “this topic sounds interesting,” and finally got an answer after a while, so subjectively I don’t feel like I “gave it out because I already had it.”
  • What is Scrapbox? Have you asked yourself broad questions like that before?
  • I know what it feels like to answer a Closed question with an Open answer, as long as it’s to the point. I know what you mean. - [clever - (Did I choose to say “clever” in a distant way?)
  • One wrong move and it’s like [To someone with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
    • The hammer, which can be used at any time to ask the question, “Is it A or B?”Balance is important 」w
      • In short, Uncle Balance. ！
• Hmmm, I think I might find something a little more interesting when I dig.
  • How do you use X and Y?” What is Y here? “Is X a Y?” That’s how it went, wasn’t it?
  • When Y is The concept is ambiguous, the question “Is X Y? I think the question “Is X Y?” is “Yes if Y is taken in a broad sense, and No if taken in a narrow sense.
• If there is an open discussion forum for Yes/No style questions, answering only Yes or No is not a discussion. - Suddenly Voting I guess it’s related to the topic of not being good at it. - If options were only Yes and No, the conversation would not expand.
  • It’s like, “If it’s condition A, then yes.” “Well, if it’s condition A, then yes.”
    • How much does it mean to be Yes on the condition that A.

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