Actually, I&#x27;ve found the &quot;what I&#x27;ve tried that didn&#x27;t work&quot; section to be useful quite often when I land on SO from a google search. Sometimes the questioner lists something that I didn&#x27;t think of that <i>does</i> work for my specific problem, or it&#x27;s what makes me realize that the answer given won&#x27;t actually apply to my problem before I waste a bunch of time on it. Sometimes it&#x27;s the only part that actually matches what I searched for, so I wouldn&#x27;t have even found the question with a useful answer without it.