Timeline for Possible to "protest" the transfer of a question to another forum?
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| Mar 20, 2017 at 10:04 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://superuser.com/ with https://superuser.com/
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| Jan 20, 2011 at 14:03 | comment | added | DarkWingDuck | not to discuss where this little belongs to, but it pretty looks like a question to me. | |
| Nov 30, 2010 at 10:17 | comment | added | BinaryMisfit Mod | @Andreas. I do not object to users answering their own questions. However, in this particular case, it made no sense. The real issue is whether it really was a question or not. | |
| Nov 28, 2010 at 21:16 | comment | added | Andreas Bonini |
Furthermore, I don't really consider that a question, since you answered it yourself => This goes against official policy that states there is absolutely nothing wrong with answering your own question; it doesn't make it any less of a question in any way.
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| Oct 16, 2010 at 17:36 | comment | added | James Mertz | @e.m.fields There is definitely is a grey area of when to post the answer and when to write it on your blog and post a link to it. I do the later generally when the answer is going to be a very long one and contain lots of media (i.e. pictures of what's happening). Finally, questions are moved based off of moderation and in some cases is based of the opinion of the moderators. They are however moderating with the best in mind for the users and SuperUser community. There will always be differing opinions, but I can assure you that moderators do not abuse their powers. | |
| Oct 15, 2010 at 23:10 | comment | added | emf | Final response on the subject, @Diago: re. "Why not just create a blog post about it?" Why would you discourage me from posting about it here? To quote from the Superuser FAQ: "Super User is collaboratively built and maintained by your fellow users. [...] you'll be able to edit anything, much like Wikipedia. With your help, we can build good answers to every question a power user might have." This certainly seems to imply that you welcome the input of information relevant to "computer power users". This was the purpose of my post, trying to contribute to the community. Thank you. | |
| Oct 15, 2010 at 23:05 | comment | added | emf | @gilles - thank you for the backup, felt the same way. No big deal, but worth saying something about. | |
| Oct 15, 2010 at 23:02 | comment | added | emf | I would also add: this was not about "stack exchange sites", though these were cited as an example, but rather "how to make search in google chrome limit itself to a predefined set of websites". While respecting the moderator's authority here, and really not trying to whine about a trivial issue, it's something of an issue for importance of clarifying what is category-appropriate for each of these Stack exchange sites, which is really not very well highlighted. I've heard numerous other remarks on this subject, so think I'm not alone here. respectfully, | |
| Oct 15, 2010 at 22:57 | comment | added | emf | Hi Diago and Gilles, Diago: Thank you for the response. I'm not really horribly put out about my question being moved, it's mostly that I didn't think it fell outside of the Superuser "range" as described in the About section nor the FAQ. I have read both the FAQ and the About section, and I believe the descriptions what is appropriate or not for each of these Stack exchange sites leaves some room for improvement. In the question in case, I considered the question (or tip, granted!) to be about how to do something with Google Chrome, which does not qualify as being "about a website" IMO | |
| Oct 15, 2010 at 22:19 | comment | added | BinaryMisfit Mod | @Gilles You are 100% entitled to your opinion and I respect that. However I am not convinced that the question should have stayed. It was more a tip then an actual question, and I was not alone in thinking so. | |
| Oct 15, 2010 at 22:12 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | The question you cite is formulated as a question about the web browser Chrome. Granted, it has had a web application answer (use the SE all-sites search), but that answer only handles the specific example and not the general case. e.m.fields's own answer leverages both the local application Chrome and the web application Google. An even more general answer might combine results from different search engines, which is intrisically local. So I don't see how summarily moving the question to WA.SE is justified. | |
| Oct 15, 2010 at 16:48 | history | edited | DMA57361 | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
fixed link
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| Oct 15, 2010 at 16:42 | history | answered | BinaryMisfitMod | CC BY-SA 2.5 |