Timeline for The process of closing a question is arguably rather hostile. Can we please find a better way?
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| Oct 8, 2015 at 11:00 | comment | added | Ramhound | @boot13 - Impersonal messages are not hostile. I still feel you are taking your questions being closed way to personal. As I explained I see zero questions that you have submitted and then were closed, that were closed, that were actually on topic. The majority of your questions were not the best questions, and those that were high quality, were still not on topic for this site. Just because it deals with technology does not mean its on topic here. The people responding to you are all normal users except Geek. | |
| Oct 8, 2015 at 6:42 | comment | added | Sathyajith Bhat Mod |
also, @boot13 unless you add an @ prefix to the commenters' name, they won't be notified.
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| Oct 8, 2015 at 6:41 | comment | added | Sathyajith Bhat Mod | @codeSwift4Life questions go on hold for exactly the same reason. They move to closed state after being on hold for 5 days | |
| Oct 8, 2015 at 4:44 | comment | added | Joseph | Mods could maybe warn, "This question is a bit off topic. Could you revise?" | |
| Oct 8, 2015 at 4:30 | comment | added | Joseph | I have had over 5 questions closed. I know how it feels. Now I am at 70 (hard-earned) rep and would be terrified if I got back to 1. | |
| Oct 7, 2015 at 23:56 | answer | added | Giacomo1968 | timeline score: 4 | |
| Oct 7, 2015 at 20:14 | comment | added | boot13 | Michael Frank: See the question link I just added. When I saw the close votes, I reworded the question to remove the problematic 'request for recommendation' text. I added some examples. Then I voted to reopen the question. Soon after that, I saw several other votes to re-open the question. Then the question was closed. Then the question was deleted. I never received any notifications for any of these things, by the way, and never got anything but canned explanations. | |
| Oct 7, 2015 at 20:10 | comment | added | boot13 | "Don't take it personally." That might as well be "The Moderator's Refrain". How I feel personally about this is irrelevant. I have a legitimate question, someone points me to Superuser, I ask the question, the question gets closed, and all I see are canned responses that don't really seem to apply. Impersonal, arbitrary, and yes, hostile. As moderators, you may not agree with that assessment, but I bet most ordinary users would agree. | |
| Oct 7, 2015 at 20:03 | comment | added | boot13 | Ramhound: I guess you didn't see the most recent one because that closed question was deleted. See the link I added above. | |
| Oct 7, 2015 at 20:01 | comment | added | boot13 | DavidPostill: I added a link pointing to a recent question of mine that was closed (now deleted). | |
| Oct 7, 2015 at 20:00 | history | edited | boot13 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Added link to closed (now deleted) question.
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| Oct 7, 2015 at 16:33 | comment | added | Moab | I fail to see the "hostility" in how questions are closed on SU. Don't take closures personally. | |
| Oct 6, 2015 at 23:22 | answer | added | Journeyman GeekMod | timeline score: 7 | |
| Oct 6, 2015 at 23:18 | comment | added | Ramhound | I looked at all three of your questions that are currently closed. One was closed for being "too localized" an earlier version of "too broad" in other words you were seeking our opinion or your question was simply not in the scope of Superuser. One was a problem that "went away" and was closed soon afterwords, the other, was seeking why broadband speed tests are incarnate. I don't see how you can complain any of those questions were closed. | |
| Oct 6, 2015 at 23:13 | comment | added | Ramhound | "Point to another StackExchange site, or some other resource, that might be a better fit." - We do but that only is possible if the question is on topic on another Stackexchange website and is high enough quality to merit it being migrated. "Provide some mechanism to dispute a question being closed. I've had at least one question closed where the stated reason just made no sense, but I had no recourse." - Yes, actually you did. Feel free to point to that question that was closed without a valid reason...... | |
| Oct 6, 2015 at 23:11 | comment | added | Ramhound | "In any case, despite the somewhat-helpful information provided to the asker, being on the receiving end of the closing process is like being kicked in the stomach, especially when the asker has tried very hard to follow the rules." - A question being closed isn't personal. If you take this sort of thing personal, then strive to submit only extremely high quality content, then you can avoid feeling like we are "kicking you in the stomach". | |
| Oct 6, 2015 at 22:08 | comment | added | DavidPostill Mod | If you wish to have a discussion examples are needed ... | |
| Oct 6, 2015 at 21:09 | comment | added | Michael Frank | There actually is a mechanism to reopen questions. | |
| Oct 6, 2015 at 20:49 | history | asked | boot13 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |