Timeline for A few suggestions to the Stack Overflow community regarding the off-topic question
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| May 23, 2017 at 12:36 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| May 12, 2013 at 23:25 | comment | added | ObiHill | @JoshCaswell Ok, didn't know that. Here here to the suggestion then...it has my vote! | |
| May 12, 2013 at 17:04 | comment | added | jscs | Your proposal number 1 has been made more than once in the past; see Shouldn't there be some sort of grace period before questions can be closed? and questions linked from the sidebar there. | |
| May 12, 2013 at 12:35 | comment | added | Bart | ..not necessarily a programming task, hence off-topic if it isn't one.. We can discuss all these vague hypotheticals all you want, bottom line is that the question you asked was not programming related. If that was merely a matter of your phrasing, you should have/could have adjusted it to be on-topic. | |
| May 12, 2013 at 12:17 | comment | added | ObiHill | @Bart One of the reasons KyleStrand made on a comment on my question to defend a previous comment was "The question Pekka answered is at least about CSS, which could be considered a programming topic.". But from what you just said, explaining XML (or CSS #ByInference) code to someone is not necessary a programming task (hence off-topic). Plus his [Pekka's] question was closed previously, and then suddenly opened when I pointed to it in my example...like it was NOT OK before but now it's OK?! Very confusing for me at this point, but I'll keep studying. | |
| May 12, 2013 at 12:03 | comment | added | Mat | @Chuck: Super User, Ask Ubuntu, Ask Different, possibly U&L too, depending on what your exact question is and what your platform of choice is. XML is plain text (structured certainly, but still plain text). | |
| May 12, 2013 at 11:56 | comment | added | ObiHill | @Mat Oh really?! Sorry, I didn't see it that way. So where would I ask a question regarding XML hand-editing being that it's off-topic on StackOverflow?! | |
| May 12, 2013 at 11:30 | comment | added | Mat | @Chuck: define "XML code". XML is more often used to represent data than code. Editing an XML data file by hand isn't programming. Explaining how to fix an XML configuration file for, say, a GUI framework used in a program would be on topic on Stack Overflow, but that's note "because it's XML", it's because it's part of the program. | |
| May 12, 2013 at 11:25 | comment | added | Bart | Not necessarily, no. | |
| May 12, 2013 at 11:23 | comment | added | ObiHill | @Mat So if I posted XML code explaining to someone the way to get something done, that would NOT be considered programming-related?! | |
| May 12, 2013 at 11:21 | comment | added | Mat |
@ChuckUgwuh: editing SVG (or XML for another example) isn't in itself a programming task. Writing code to read/edit an SVG file is a programming task. Creating an SVG file in Notepad is not programming, neither is creating a .bmp in mspaint.
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| May 12, 2013 at 11:20 | history | edited | Bart | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 12, 2013 at 11:15 | comment | added | Bart | See my answer below. And no, that it's an SVG does not mean it's programming related. I don't know why you think it would be. | |
| May 12, 2013 at 11:14 | answer | added | Bart | timeline score: 9 | |
| May 12, 2013 at 11:14 | comment | added | ObiHill | @Bart the .svg file that comes out of Inkscape is what I mean. SVG would qualify as programming-related if I'm not mistaken?! And if I was able to post the answer to my question, then I would be able to clarify. How do I clarify when the question is closed or migrated?! | |
| May 12, 2013 at 11:06 | comment | added | Bart | "requires some editing of the resulting SVG file" ... care to define "editing"? The solution you outline still doesn't sound like programming to me. And if you were to have approached this problem from a programming angle from the very start, clarifying what you had done so far to programmatically approach you problem, you might have had more luck. | |
| May 12, 2013 at 11:01 | history | asked | ObiHill | CC BY-SA 3.0 |