On: Why is houseplant advice so bad?

[nottorp]

> To get an even better answer, ask a better question: ‘I water my sansevieria (snake plant) about once a week, and it’s not in direct sun. I’ve had it for six months and it was nice when I got it. But now the tips are brown, what am I doing wrong?’

Hmm where have i seen that before... oh, here:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

[brodouevencode → nottorp]

As I was reading this all I could think was that this should be popped up before any stackoverflow post is allowed to be submitted.