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I would like to keep the majority of the current reason in there but just add a disclaimer about the Software Recommendations site to add a caveat that I've seen David Postill use:

Questions seeking product, service, or learning material recommendations are off-topic because they become outdated quickly and attract opinion-based answers. Instead, describe your situation and the specific problem you're trying to solve. Share your research. You can try Software Recommendations SE, but please first read What is required for a question to contain "enough information"What is required for a question to contain "enough information".

As it stands though this is too longThis leaves us with 6 characters and a few questions. The text needsThere are a number of feedback sections we can tailor. Do we prefer to just copy the above into each or do we want to add some more specific direction? Each section allows 500 words. and can be more or less specific than 500 charactersthe above which would go in the Post Owner Guidance section at the very least.

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I would like to keep the majority of the current reason in there but just add a disclaimer about the Software Recommendations site to add a caveat that I've seen David Postill use:

Questions seeking product, service, or learning material recommendations are off-topic because they become outdated quickly and attract opinion-based answers. Instead, describe your situation and the specific problem you're trying to solve. Share your research. You can try Software Recommendations SE, but please first read What is required for a question to contain "enough information".

As it stands though this is too long. The text needs to be less than 500 characters.

I would like to keep the majority of the current reason in there but just add a disclaimer about the Software Recommendations site to add a caveat that I've seen David Postill use:

Questions seeking product, service, or learning material recommendations are off-topic because they become outdated quickly and attract opinion-based answers. Instead, describe your situation and the specific problem you're trying to solve. Share your research. You can try Software Recommendations SE, but please first read What is required for a question to contain "enough information".

This leaves us with 6 characters and a few questions. There are a number of feedback sections we can tailor. Do we prefer to just copy the above into each or do we want to add some more specific direction? Each section allows 500 words. and can be more or less specific than the above which would go in the Post Owner Guidance section at the very least.

Usage Guidance

Give the user guidance as to when they should select this option

Close description

When a post is closed with a single community-specific close reason, this message will be displayed publicly above any private guidance.

Post owner guidance

Provide meaningful actions a user can take to either get their question reopened or have a more favorable outcome in the future.

Privileged user guidance

Provide guidance for users with the reopen privilege so they can constructively engage the post owner and reopen the question if appropriate.

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Mokubai Mod
  • 94.8k
  • 1
  • 53
  • 78

I would like to keep the majority of the current reason in there but just add a disclaimer about the Software Recommendations site to add a caveat that I've seen David Postill use:

Questions seeking product, service, or learning material recommendations are off-topic because they become outdated quickly and attract opinion-based answers. Instead, describe your situation and the specific problem you're trying to solve. Share your research. You can try Software Recommendations SE, but please first read What is required for a question to contain "enough information".

As it stands though this is too long. The text needs to be less than 500 characters.