Timeline for Should "Best features\software\etc. " questions be closed?
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| Dec 8, 2009 at 7:57 | vote | accept | Adam Matan | ||
| Aug 31, 2009 at 15:42 | comment | added | Eric | @Shog9: I reiterate my statement that the community needs something to hold its interest so that it will answer the real questions. There's a fine line between draconian enforcement of the rules and nipping unwanted behavior in the bud. I think you are straying a little too far towards the authoritarian side. | |
| Aug 31, 2009 at 14:28 | comment | added | Shog9 | @Udi: "the community" isn't posting endless variations on the same useless questions - individual members are. That's why "the community" closes them. CW is a compromise to allow the more popular questions of this sort to stick around, but unpopular ones still get closed. | |
| Aug 31, 2009 at 9:19 | comment | added | Adam Matan | @Shog9 I understand the argument, but I think it's a negative feedback loop, because the community gets tired quite fast. The CW might be a good solution; perhaps the site moderators should CW before deleting. | |
| Aug 30, 2009 at 22:13 | history | edited | Robert Cartaino | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Aug 30, 2009 at 19:35 | comment | added | Shog9 | See also: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10390/… | |
| Aug 30, 2009 at 18:21 | comment | added | Adam Matan | This is a classic "ad absurdum" argument, which is quite irrelevant in this case. Purely programming-related CW discussions, which highlight certain elements of a programming language, do not harm the more focused questions. There should be a fair amount of common sense here: "Bust unknown python features" is acceptable, but "worst knock knock jokes" isn't, because the first is about programming and the second isn't. | |
| Aug 30, 2009 at 17:55 | comment | added | Eric | @Eric: Yes, but when that day comes that you're jovial, I'm really going to be in a mess. | |
| Aug 30, 2009 at 17:50 | comment | added | Eric | @Eric: Your comments are usually happier comments than my comments so you can use that as a helpful rule of thumb when making judgement. | |
| Aug 30, 2009 at 17:38 | comment | added | Eric | @Eric: You're giving me a real identity crisis. I keep seeing your comments and going, "I didn't say that!" | |
| Aug 30, 2009 at 17:26 | comment | added | Eric | I think that mandating what the community should be interested in also has its risks. "Real", programming-related questions will be more likely to be answered if there are many active users. There are more likely to be many active users if there are questions being posted that interest them. The popularity of these questions may be "disproportionate", but that popularity also indicates that they hold the community's interest. | |
| Aug 30, 2009 at 16:34 | history | edited | Robert Cartaino | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Aug 30, 2009 at 16:24 | history | answered | Robert Cartaino | CC BY-SA 2.5 |