Timeline for Seriously consider removing the "no software recommendations" rule, or stop moderators from abusing it
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| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
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| Jan 21, 2020 at 17:12 | comment | added | DavidPostill Mod | What topics clearly says "and it is not about … asking for a product, service or learning material recommendation" | |
| Jan 21, 2020 at 17:10 | comment | added | DavidPostill Mod | "So I am basically looking for a way to administer a firewall (network filter, whitelist/blacklist, or whatever you want to call it) much more easily and with a more visual/interactive approach. " I don't see how that is anything other than a software request ... | |
| Jan 21, 2020 at 17:08 | comment | added | WackGet | @DavidPostill And I really fail to see how my question falls foul of any of the recommendations in your "What topics can I ask about" article. My question seems to fit right in, and should be re-opened. | |
| Jan 21, 2020 at 17:05 | comment | added | WackGet | @DavidPostill If you check out my question which was closed, I wasn't just asking for a straight recommendation. I followed the guidelines on how to ask. I described my problem and described a desired solution; users are free to recommend solutions which aren't just straight up "use this software". That's what annoys me about this rule being [ab]used. | |
| Jan 21, 2020 at 7:58 | comment | added | DavidPostill Mod | If only users would read What topics can I ask about here? - Help Center - Super User before posting, but I guess that is just too much of an ask. | |
| Jan 21, 2020 at 6:57 | answer | added | Journeyman GeekMod | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jan 21, 2020 at 6:47 | comment | added | Ramhound | We don’t need to allow software recommendations here at Super User there is a Stack Exchange community dedicated to software recommendations. While your feedback raises great points, those recommendations are not possible, due to the limitations of the Stack Exchange software itself. It’s not possible to require links, and have recommendations meet a certain level of quality, what will happen is we will be spammed by low quality single sentence answers. You don’t know about all the answers that are deleted which are absolutely not worth keeping around. Getting angry is not the correct approach | |
| Jan 21, 2020 at 3:42 | comment | added | Michael Frank | Did you try softwarerecs.stackexchange.com ? | |
| Jan 21, 2020 at 3:32 | comment | added | WackGet | FYI here is my latest question which was closed: superuser.com/questions/1518759/… | |
| Jan 21, 2020 at 3:31 | history | asked | WackGet | CC BY-SA 4.0 |