Timeline for How to ask a "Recommended design / tool for the job" question correctly, and where?
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| Dec 29, 2013 at 20:16 | comment | added | Mark E. Haase | The question, "why aren't tool recommendations allowed on SE," is answered with, "because tool recommendations are not allowed on SE." I find lots of the "recommend a tool" threads to be VERY useful, because -- like most allowed questions asked here -- a lot of smart people have already evaluated various alternatives, and the voting/reputation mechanism helps to collaboratively filter out the junk. | |
| Nov 7, 2013 at 14:51 | comment | added | Servy | @yaccz Of course not; we know very well that these problems exist. The stance is, "you can discuss them on other sites more suitable and willing to discuss them, we are choosing not to allow them here because we don't have the means for them to be effective." That said, a "find me a tool that does X" is actually quite different from a "does X do Y". The latter is not opinion based; and one can provide hard factual evidence supporting whether or not it can do it, so such a question can in fact be appropriate on the site. | |
| Nov 7, 2013 at 7:24 | comment | added | Jan Matejka | You can't ask "Is tool X suitable for task Y?" if don't know any X ffs. So, the community stance on this is "it's hard to avoid subjectivity, therefore we'll just pretend these problems doesn't exist". | |
| Sep 20, 2012 at 7:10 | history | edited | gnat | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 19, 2012 at 19:57 | comment | added | Servy | @EhrannMehdan The title seems a bit...much. Consider shortening it; titles need not be complete sentances. But I'd say it's a good (in scope) question for the site the way that you phrased it. | |
| Sep 19, 2012 at 19:55 | comment | added | Eran Medan | Thank you, here is the question: stackoverflow.com/questions/12501920/… I hope it's ok | |
| Sep 19, 2012 at 19:49 | vote | accept | Eran Medan | ||
| Sep 19, 2012 at 19:22 | comment | added | Servy | @EhrannMehdan I wouldn't use the term "recommended" as that is asking for opinions. You want questions that will provide facts. "Is Hadoop capable of solving problem X?" or "was Hadoop designed to solve problems such as X?" is more along the lines of what you'd want. | |
| Sep 19, 2012 at 19:18 | comment | added | Eran Medan | So is a question about "is Hadoop a recommended tool for solving problem X" is a valid question in SO? | |
| Sep 19, 2012 at 19:05 | history | answered | Servy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |