Timeline for More reasons to put a question on hold
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| Nov 29, 2015 at 13:02 | comment | added | varocarbas | I don't agree with either of the answers, but as far as I am always saying that some answer has to be accepted... I preferred yours because some of your comments have been quite helpful. Note that I have created a version-2 post in SO Meta: meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/311369/… | |
| Nov 29, 2015 at 13:01 | vote | accept | CommunityBot | moved from User.Id=230277 by developer User.Id=1189407 | |
| Nov 27, 2015 at 15:43 | comment | added | HDE 226868 | @varocarbas Yeah, the reasons are the same, although the specifics (e.g. different things may be off-topic for different reasons on different sites) change. | |
| Nov 27, 2015 at 15:41 | comment | added | varocarbas | OK (I highlighted SO because this is what I know; wasn't sure whether the other SE sites have the exact same reasons). | |
| Nov 27, 2015 at 15:36 | comment | added | HDE 226868 | @varocarbas I'm not sure if you'll be able to delete it, now that there are answers. At any rate, though, this feature doesn't contain anything specific to Stack Overflow - that is, it wouldn't be more useful there than anywhere else (I think). My only point there was saying that only basing the argument on SO questions isn't a good one - the feature would be helpful or unhelpful elsewhere, too - and we shouldn't restrict ourselves to situations on SO. | |
| Nov 27, 2015 at 15:33 | comment | added | varocarbas | Ah! I am not a meta expert and just clicked on the Meta link. Should I delete this question, then and ask just in SO Meta? PS: I didn't mean the downvotes in this situation (got plently of them in my previous questions). | |
| Nov 27, 2015 at 15:31 | comment | added | HDE 226868 | @varocarbas 1) It's not that the system encourages a lack of effort; it's that the cases that could plausibly not fall under one of the main close reasons - and would need some other reason, covered by the custom close dialog box - are few and far between. 2) Honestly, 2 downvotes (disclaimer: not me) are not a "ton" on Meta. A couple folks disagree; that's not bad. 3) Questions that are only for Stack Overflow should be asked on Meta Stack Overflow. Questions asked on Meta Stack Exchange should pertain to the entire network - this implementation would be network-wide. | |
| Nov 27, 2015 at 15:27 | comment | added | varocarbas | Why making an extra-effort within a system promoting no-efforts (as said, almost everyone selects pre-made options and I am certain that lots of cases are not properly-defined by them). For example: now I see something which might (slightly) improve SO, I come here and write my ideas; I get a ton of downvotes and people almost attacking me (not saying that this is the case now); I would not make any proposal in the future. Why?... Seeing that a question is not SO-material and spending 15s by chosing an option to put it on hold is fine (writing a custom reason every time, is not). | |
| Nov 27, 2015 at 15:20 | comment | added | HDE 226868 | @varocarbas Yes, I vote to close often, because on some sites where I have close vote privileges, there are a decent amount of crappy questions. I feel like your question in your comment is rhetorical - why, then, do you choose the pre-made options if they aren't sufficient? | |
| Nov 27, 2015 at 15:17 | comment | added | varocarbas | Are you usually voting to put questions on hold? I do it pretty regularly and haven't almost ever chosen the custom option (same thing with all the other people -> take a look at the reason why the questions are put on hold; 99% of the times are short-listed reasons). Unless under very specific situations, why thinking about a convincing reason and writing it instead of just selecting a pre-made option? | |
| Nov 27, 2015 at 15:14 | comment | added | HDE 226868 | @varocarbas See my last paragraph. That's why we have comments and custom close reasons. | |
| Nov 27, 2015 at 15:13 | comment | added | varocarbas | First of all, clarifying that I am referring just to StackOverflow. As said in my question, It is definetively possible to include all these behaviours in the current categories (I am voting to put on hold various questions per day and I do have to choose a category every time). What I am saying is that the options are not descriptive enough. For example: can you please indicate the exact reasons you would choose for each of the proposed types? | |
| Nov 27, 2015 at 15:08 | history | answered | HDE 226868 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |