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| Oct 31 at 21:28 | comment | added | Starship | @jay613 I don't remotely understand what that comment means | |
| Oct 31 at 21:23 | comment | added | jay613 | @Starship your answer and comments are in the category that I predicted and was hoping to avoid. That if everyone behaves ideally no new feature is necessary. But as I said in the question, if everyone behaves ideally almost all features are unnecessary. Among them, comments. I'm glad you are not a designer of road signs. | |
| Oct 31 at 21:14 | comment | added | Starship | @MisterMiyagi It does because there is a chance that another user will explain it or the OP will come back. | |
| Oct 31 at 21:13 | comment | added | MisterMiyagi | Yes. And I haven't questioned that people are able to do that. I have questioned whether it's meaningful and has a point. | |
| Oct 31 at 21:09 | comment | added | Starship | Yes. You can also do that if even if B is less likely to get a response from the OP. @MisterMiyagi | |
| Oct 31 at 21:07 | comment | added | MisterMiyagi | Seriously? The difference is whether it's useful to also ask them for clarification. I'm not sure if this needs pointing out - apparently it does - but one can a) VTC and b) ask for clarification, completely independently. That one does a) or that a) is still meaningful has no effect whatsoever on whether one does b) or whether b) is still meaningful. | |
| Oct 31 at 21:06 | comment | added | Starship | @MisterMiyagi Yes. My point is that even if the OP is active you should VTC. So what difference does it make if the OP is inactive. | |
| Oct 31 at 21:05 | comment | added | MisterMiyagi | Yes? You keep repeating that but it doesn't mean one can't also ask them for clarification. The close banners and descriptions are notoriously generic, so a tailored comment is often helpful - if they are still around to act on it. | |
| Oct 31 at 20:54 | comment | added | Starship | @MisterMiyagi If answering a question requires asking the OP information which only they can provide then the question should be closed. | |
| Oct 31 at 20:53 | comment | added | MisterMiyagi | It means that none of what you note here is by itself a reason why asking the OP for clarification is still as relevant when they are gone as it was before. User C and closing the question are completely orthogonal to asking the OP for information only they can provide. | |
| Oct 31 at 20:44 | comment | added | Starship | I dont understand your comment. I have seen situations where user A posts somethign, user B doesn’t understand it and the post is then explained by another user, user C. I don’t see what the question not being the OP means (beyond the obvious) or how that is relevant here. And if you need clarification, then the question is unclear. Unclear questions should be closed. | |
| Oct 31 at 20:41 | comment | added | MisterMiyagi | None of that changes that asking the OP for clarification becomes useless when they are no longer around. Someone else can edit the question? Great, but someone else isn't the OP, so I don't have to ask them. The question should be closed? Great, but the question isn't the OP, so I, dunno, could repeat this again, but it seems kind of self-evident that closing a question and asking for clarification are related but separate actions. | |
| Oct 31 at 20:30 | comment | added | Starship | Other users could potentially have understood what the OP meant. And if you need clarification to answer a question, then that question should be closed. @MisterMiyagi | |
| Oct 31 at 20:29 | comment | added | MisterMiyagi | That doesn't mean there aren't also other actions that become useless if the OP is no longer around, such as asking them for clarification. | |
| Oct 31 at 20:25 | comment | added | Starship | Any question should be potentially useful for other people. Any question which is useless without interaction with the OP should be closed. @MisterMiyagi | |
| Oct 31 at 19:59 | comment | added | MisterMiyagi | "For most readers, when the OP last logged in is rather irrelevant." Citation needed. I don't care whether they last logged in one minute or one day ago, but if they are gone for a long time many actions are just pointless. While questions should be for everyone, not all are, and many of those need interacting with the OP to salvage them. | |
| Oct 31 at 19:33 | history | edited | Shadow Wizard | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Not relevant who declined it.
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| Oct 31 at 19:29 | history | answered | Starship | CC BY-SA 4.0 |