Timeline for Why has this question on BlueJeans people account inference been placed on-hold as off-topic as "not about computer hardware or software"?
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| Aug 23, 2018 at 3:17 | comment | added | Franck Dernoncourt | " Your question here, on the other hand, does not ask something that we can go test. You're asking about an algorithm which can be literally anything. " -> the question can be tested. | |
| Jul 24, 2018 at 20:04 | comment | added | Franck Dernoncourt | @DavidPostill it's quite easy to check with some experiments. it has nothing to do with opinions. | |
| Jul 23, 2018 at 17:58 | comment | added | DavidPostill Mod | @f "BlueJeans analyzes the video to insert the people count" Anyone who proposed that as an answer (who wasn't employed by BlueJeans) would just be guessing. That's exactly what the closed as opinion based means. Any question that can only be answered by guess work and without facts to back up an answer is off-topic for that reason. | |
| Jul 23, 2018 at 17:20 | comment | added | Franck Dernoncourt | "because the "answers" you get will be someone's guess, supposition, or opinion (which is not terribly likely to be right) by making inferences based on the outward behavior of the software." -> In many cases, an educated guess can yield the exact answer or a good approximation of it. For example, is for my question the answer is that "BlueJeans analyzes the video to insert the people count", then that's quite easy to verify the answer. No need to access the BlueJeans code. | |
| Jul 23, 2018 at 17:18 | comment | added | Franck Dernoncourt | " few proprietary software vendors do in fact participiate in Q&A on the network, but 99% of the time, asking questions like this is not really productive, because the "answers" you get will be someone's guess" -> there is at least one BlueJeans employee on SU, who already answered one question. Closing the question kills all hope to have an answer, and deter company employees to monitor SU. | |
| Jul 23, 2018 at 17:17 | comment | added | Franck Dernoncourt | Thanks. "But very specific questions about the internals of proprietary software often won't ever be answerable by anyone except an employee of the company that wrote the software." -> the OP typically doesn't know ahead of time if the information is publicly available. | |
| Jul 23, 2018 at 9:10 | history | edited | allquixotic | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 23, 2018 at 8:54 | history | answered | allquixotic | CC BY-SA 4.0 |