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Apr 13, 2017 at 12:56 history edited CommunityBot
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Oct 11, 2013 at 5:16 comment added John Dvorak @Gaia negative. Whether something is good or bad (here, getters) is very distinct from whether it's consistent to think something is true (here, theistic evolution), which is, again, different from the question of what are the objective positives and negatives of something (say, said getters and setters). I think that you could turn your example into a good questions for Software Engineering, but that site didn't exist back then. But, as it is worded now, it's too subjective even for nowadays' Software Engineering.
Oct 11, 2013 at 5:15 comment added David Robinson @Gaia: How Christianity.SE chooses to deal with their old upvoted questions may be different than how StackOverflow chooses to.
Oct 11, 2013 at 5:08 comment added Gaia Ok @Jan. Then this stackoverflow.com/questions/565095/…, should be a valid question. Keep in mind I'm not trying to defend it as a question, I am just following your logic.
Oct 11, 2013 at 5:06 comment added Jon Ericson StaffMod @Gaia: To be fair, that question came pretty early in the private beta (and so was the SO question for that matter). It seems unlikely that the question would have been allowed if it were asked today. Also, take a look at the answer, which very clearly is based on verifiable facts.
Oct 11, 2013 at 5:03 comment added John Dvorak @Gaia I sure can. The possibility of holding some opinion seems pretty objective to me. What is subjective is whether the opinion is correct.
Oct 11, 2013 at 5:02 comment added Gaia @DavidRobinson, fair enough. But you can't say that "Can I believe in evolution and still be a Christian?" is NOT based on opinion.
Oct 11, 2013 at 4:59 history edited Ward - Trying Codidact CC BY-SA 3.0
added note re: specific question
Oct 11, 2013 at 4:58 comment added David Robinson @Gaia: See their About page for a list of specific opinion-based questions that aren't allowed: "what the Bible says about a subject," without specifying a doctrine or tradition, aren't allowed precisely because they are opinion-based. On the other hand, "What do Baptists believe about X" would be on-topic, because it's not based on opinion.
Oct 11, 2013 at 4:54 comment added David Robinson @Gaia: Catholic dogma and theology. But this isn't really the place to go into Catholic history (though Christianity.SE might be- if you're curious, ask there).
Oct 11, 2013 at 4:53 comment added Gaia And maybe my question also applies to SciFi.SE
Oct 11, 2013 at 4:52 comment added Gaia I understand the /About and "list of what's on topic", but the mother ship states "Stack Exchange is not the place for opinions"
Oct 11, 2013 at 4:42 comment added Gaia thanks, i changed it. i didnt know it wasn't entirely based on the Bible. BTW, what else do they base it on? What the Pope says?
Oct 11, 2013 at 4:40 history answered Ward - Trying Codidact CC BY-SA 3.0