Timeline for Is asking for user stories off-topic on meta sites?
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| Sep 27, 2017 at 0:16 | comment | added | Cascabel | @Catija I get the way you're making the argument; I guess my point of view is that we shouldn't need that sort of argument here. This subject is a huge part of how these sites actually work, so it is not merely a subject people may want to talk about (and thus on-topic on meta) but it is something that must be on-topic if meta is to serve the interests of the site. It's not something that should be left up to the whims of the site, any more than the topicality of discussing site scope should be. | |
| Sep 26, 2017 at 16:16 | comment | added | English Student | This is a case of "pick up the ball and run with it", @NVZ. That's how an excellent random idea develops into a tradition. I appreciate your initiative to bring it to English.SE which has sometimes been negative in such matters: instead of thinking why, we might think why not? as 'your story' question demonstrates. William Webb Ellis literally picked up a football (soccer ball) and ran with it: thus the great sports of rugby union and rugby league were born. | |
| Sep 26, 2017 at 7:37 | comment | added | NVZ | @apaul34208 That, you did. :) | |
| Sep 26, 2017 at 7:34 | comment | added | apaul | @NVZ I didn't start it I just continued what I think could be a nice tradition. | |
| Sep 26, 2017 at 7:32 | comment | added | NVZ | @apaul34208 You started this. LOL :P | |
| Sep 26, 2017 at 7:20 | comment | added | apaul | As much as we argue, sometimes you really kick ass. Thanks for what you do. | |
| Sep 26, 2017 at 3:23 | comment | added | NVZ | Thank you Catija. Means a lot to me. | |
| Sep 26, 2017 at 2:52 | comment | added | Catija | @RaceYouAnytime Seems like a good plan. Honestly, my personal thoughts align very much with Jefromi's answer, so my feelings would be, if the site is undecided, they should be on topic until they prove to be unmanageable... but clearly some of the users on ELU are vehemently opposed. | |
| Sep 26, 2017 at 2:27 | comment | added | RaceYouAnytime | Thanks for an excellent answer. If this is up to the community, I wonder how we can reach a consensus. The original meta question has 10 upvotes and 10 downvotes, and there's little consensus on the second question. I suppose we simply continue the discussion. | |
| Sep 26, 2017 at 1:21 | comment | added | Catija | @Cascabel sure but the point of the comments is the emphasis on the statement "What that means in practice is mostly up to you: if there are things you don't want to talk about, then they're off-topic."... which implies the inverse "Things you want to talk about are on topic". | |
| Sep 26, 2017 at 1:20 | comment | added | Cascabel | I don't know how perfect the SFF memorial comparison is - why people participate on a Stack Exchange site seems more directly related to the site (in a meta way) than that. (I suppose it's also a lot broader, though, can have far more answers.) | |
| Sep 26, 2017 at 1:17 | history | answered | Catija | CC BY-SA 3.0 |