Timeline for Is asking for user stories off-topic on meta sites?
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| Sep 26, 2017 at 16:42 | history | edited | gung - Reinstate Monica | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 26, 2017 at 13:40 | comment | added | NVZ | @gung I suggest that you add that comment info into your answer itself; that the part in the parentheses are just examples and not constraints. Nice answer. Thanks. | |
| Sep 26, 2017 at 13:11 | comment | added | gung - Reinstate Monica | Setting aside the sarcasm, I read the whole thing but quoted only the part I thought was germane (it is also the complement of the only part quoted in the linked ELU answer, but that's a coincidence). In general, parenthetical phrases are used to provide examples, elaborate, constrain, or qualify a point in the main clause. I gather you read that very literally & thought of it as constraining the possibilities to only those listed. You seem to think that no other reading could be taken w/o the reader being corrupt. I take it as illustrating some of the cases that could fall w/i the scope. | |
| Sep 26, 2017 at 7:14 | comment | added | user371235 | I like how you omitted the relevant clarification of that EL&U meta site rule to shore up your point: English Language & Usage Stack Exchange users to communicate with each other about English Language & Usage Stack Exchange (asking questions about how the websites work, or about policies and community decisions) – second emphasis mine. You can't've interpreted it in the way you suggest unless you'd stopped reading at the point where the explanation begins. | |
| Sep 26, 2017 at 1:34 | history | edited | gung - Reinstate Monica | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 26, 2017 at 1:19 | history | edited | gung - Reinstate Monica | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 26, 2017 at 1:11 | history | answered | gung - Reinstate Monica | CC BY-SA 3.0 |