Timeline for What is a better name for Unclear What You're Asking?
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| Dec 27, 2014 at 11:12 | comment | added | gnat | related question at MSO: How to reduce and quickly close questions that are merely requirements? | |
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| Jan 15, 2014 at 6:28 | comment | added | Albert Renshaw | You might get some great answers if you were to ask this over at ux.stackexchange.com as well! | |
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| S Jan 15, 2014 at 6:11 | history | notice added | gnat | Reward existing answer | |
| Jan 12, 2014 at 20:57 | comment | added | Kate Gregory | I think it's an issue elsewhere also, take cooking.stackexchange.com/review/close/14937 for example: the asker is clearly asking "can I warm up my potato dish" but is the real question will it taste good, will it be bad for me, or something else? I have seen similar things on Travel although "too broad" gets a lot of use there when people just ask things like "is it nice to visit France?" or "what is the best island to visit"? | |
| Jan 12, 2014 at 20:38 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | All your reasoning is based on the change of custom close reasons on Stack Overflow. Do you want to change “unclear what you're asking” only on SO, or across the whole network? | |
| Jan 12, 2014 at 8:42 | answer | added | brandonscript | timeline score: 9 | |
| Jan 11, 2014 at 18:09 | answer | added | Kate Gregory | timeline score: 43 | |
| Jan 11, 2014 at 9:18 | comment | added | jscs | «In these cases someone is guaranteed to say "it couldn't be clearer! They want to know how to change the code so that it does what they want!"» This is the part where you say "toldyouso": Why is this question on hold? | |
| Jan 11, 2014 at 2:20 | history | edited | Kate Gregory | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 10, 2014 at 22:27 | comment | added | Eric Lippert | I appreciate your frustration. I certainly wish there were "You are the only person who can answer this question" or "We cannot predict the future any better than you can" or "if you want to know what the code does, maybe run it?" close reasons. And your desire to help is admirable. But the priority for low quality questions is to my mind, get them closed and deleted as soon as possible and not worry over-much about the reason. I agree with @RobertHarvey: someone genuinely interested in helping us help them will do so. | |
| Jan 10, 2014 at 20:48 | history | edited | Kate Gregory | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 10, 2014 at 20:46 | answer | added | Geobits | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jan 10, 2014 at 20:29 | comment | added | user102937 | Unanswerable questions are almost always "Too Broad" or "Unclear What you are Asking." I agree with the overall premise of your question (if I understand your question correctly) that shoehorning the removed close reasons into Too Broad and Unclear brings with it its own potential set of problems, but I don't see how tweaking the close reason wording will solve those. In the end, the folks who are genuinely interested in becoming productive community members will find their way. The rest, well... | |
| Jan 10, 2014 at 20:27 | comment | added | Kate Gregory | If they are answerable. And these are not. | |
| Jan 10, 2014 at 20:26 | comment | added | user102937 | In response to your edit: "Too Localized" is still gone. We already allow such questions, if they are answerable. | |
| Jan 10, 2014 at 20:20 | history | edited | Kate Gregory | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 10, 2014 at 20:05 | answer | added | user102937 | timeline score: 17 | |
| Jan 10, 2014 at 19:40 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | I know what you mean: as much as I hated “not a real close reason”, I've found that unclear and too broad do sometimes overlap. Still, I'm generally satisfied with picking either, and leaving a comment that has to be tailored to the specific question anyway. | |
| Jan 10, 2014 at 19:40 | comment | added | rene Mod | I have handled 40 items from the close vote queue today and I have voted to leave open more then before and was blessed when a custom close reason was present. In one or two I provided a custom close reason myself because I was very much struggling with the point you address. No, you're not alone... | |
| Jan 10, 2014 at 19:29 | history | asked | Kate Gregory | CC BY-SA 3.0 |