A Q&P whinge

[Answerprancer]

What is the point of doing a crossword/quiz then asking other people for the answers ?
I thought the whole point of completing crosswords/quizzes was just that - you complete it, alone, as a personal test of your own knowledge. I feel the same about cheating with dictionaries and thesauruses.
I would understand if the Q&A section was used mostly by people setting questions for us to puzzle over, but when I come here and see that little side bar absolutely crammed with unanswered newspaper crossword or quiz clues, my heart does a mini-sink.
IMO it dilutes all the 'proper' questions or fun and shinanigans in CB.

[society]

Tell the people in quizzes and puzzles that, AP.

[Answerprancer]

Oooh no! ...I'd get lynched !

[mrs.chappie]

..... but put a tin hat on first. ;o)

[lilsecret]

Answerprancer - what is AnswerBank's Q&P category for?

[boxtops]

I mostly answer other people's questions where I can, but there are times when I am absolutely stumped on an answer on one I'm doing - so, like many others, I ask my learned friends on here. I can then see the answer and where I went wrong, We are all at varying levels of Q&P skills, I like to help where I can.

[askyourgran]

Why didn't you post this on the Q& P topics AP. Sometimes when you get stuck on a crossword clue and it becomes annoying, it is nice to be able to look on this site to find like-minded people to swap answers and sometimes whinge about a particular crossword. Are you saying you manage to do all your crosswords without seeking the answers you need?

[jomifl]

all very well but why post your crossword questions everywhere but in 'quizzes & puzzles.

[Answerprancer]

Like I said - I would like to see it as a place where quizzes and puzzles are set here, that would be far more inventive and sociable IMO.

[stokemaveric]

i was stuck in our local papers crossword....the clue was postmans sack...for the life of me i couldnt get it...

[Answerprancer]

I deliberately didn't post it there because it was just an aimless whinge really - just throwing it out there - if I'm out-numbered by disagreement then so be it :-)

[Answerprancer]

..plus it was a question *about* the catagory (ie. not a "Q" or a "P"), I didn't hink it actually fitted there.

[mike11111]

Postman's sack. How many letters? Hundreds!

[stokemaveric]

actually mike11111////it was thousands....lol

[4getmenot]

If one last one was really bugging me I'd ask on here too, and some people dont do it for the fun, but for any where you can win money

[Vagrant]

// thought the whole point of completing crosswords/quizzes was just that - you complete it, alone, as a personal test of your own knowledge. //

Eventually, yes - but people have to learn and gain experience - so they ask others.

[stewey]

If I am absolutely and completely stuck on an answer to a crossword I have no compunction about asking for help, or using a dictionary or another reference: that's how you learn

[Answerprancer]

Yes, but isn't that a bit like doing your child's homework for them ?

[stewey]

There is a big difference between "helping" and "doing".

[Answerprancer]

I can see this turning into an interesting philosophical debate about the nature of memory and learning but now I'm going to have to do a "hit n run" - I have a job to get to in about 15 min.
Thanks for the answers so far.

[4getmenot]

A child if they couldnt do it would hopefully ask a teacher and learn not just give up.