Timeline for Are purely non-technical answers to technical problems on-topic?
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| Nov 27, 2017 at 14:35 | comment | added | PathToLife | This is the sort of reasoning that gives me hope for humanity. Rules and regulations need to allow for: pleasantness (if that's a word), ingenuity, and innovation (evolution) in our answers. While guiding the questioners in the right way. | |
| Sep 14, 2011 at 14:23 | comment | added | Shinrai | The goal is to find the best answer, whatever it may be. The QUESTIONS need to be technical, sure. | |
| Sep 13, 2011 at 12:59 | comment | added | Pops | I'm still not 100% on board with this answer, but I can see that I'm in the minority. I guess it fits my usage pattern; most of the time, finding out how computers work is much more important to me than getting the absolute best answer. | |
| Sep 12, 2011 at 12:54 | vote | accept | Pops | ||
| Sep 7, 2011 at 6:14 | comment | added | Daniel Beck Mod | @LordTorgamus How about "I don't recommend trying to solve this (exclusively) using technology"? | |
| Sep 6, 2011 at 16:50 | comment | added | Pops | @Scott, I suppose so. On my previous visits to the question, that bullet point seemed more dismissive than helpful, because it's such a a brief, low-effort mention. To give the answerer benefit of the doubt, though, he might have just thought it wasn't necessary to restate the content of the other answers since they're already right there on the page. | |
| Sep 6, 2011 at 16:25 | comment | added | Scott Chamberlain | @Lord The most up voted answer (which you call out as non-technical on your OP here) kind of did say that, its first statement "1. Use the other answers to remove horse porn and that icky scat stuff." Which could be reworded to "it is possible to solve this technically, and see the other answers for good ways, however you should also do:" | |
| Sep 6, 2011 at 15:48 | comment | added | Pops | For what it's worth, I consider "it is not possible to solve this technically" to be a technical answer (for the purposes of this discussion). | |
| Sep 6, 2011 at 15:43 | history | answered | Daniel BeckMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |