Timeline for Recommendations for the BEST?
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| Oct 18, 2011 at 20:13 | comment | added | Daniel Beck Mod | @Diago If the policy is in place network wide, why does Apple.SE only prohibit hardware recommendations? Quoting the Apple.SE FAQ: a shopping or buying recommendation for hardware | |
| Sep 28, 2011 at 21:31 | comment | added | slhck |
Well, to be fair, I've just never seen it like that (like hardware-rec questions which are more "aggressively" shut down for obvious reasons). Mentioning "retroactively", that implies that there was a policy introduced at some point, right? Somehow I must have missed that, since I never heard anyone say "Software recommendations are off-topic!".
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| Sep 28, 2011 at 21:20 | comment | added | BinaryMisfit Mod | Cleaning up is a tedious job, and generally left to the bigger community. To be honest, they should be closed, but we have not brought to ban hammer down hard, generally, because there are other more important duties to focus on. Good questions should stay, but we don't always apply policies retroactively. If we did, well we would never be doing anything else. There is a reason there are community moderators and there are diamond moderators. Cleanup should be left to the community. | |
| Sep 28, 2011 at 21:11 | history | edited | slhck | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 28, 2011 at 20:59 | comment | added | slhck | But why are still there so many around? For as long as I've been here, I personally haven't seen the major part of them closed as long as they were based on somehow measurable criteria (as Daniel mentioned). Don't you think it would make more sense to actually enforce such a rule rather then letting any software-rec question slip through (if this is the "official" policy)? | |
| Sep 28, 2011 at 20:49 | comment | added | BinaryMisfit Mod | In the end I refer back to my point 1. If we keep 1 open, we create a moderation issue every time we close a bad question. The policy about recommendations are in place network wide, and debating whether it is software vs hardware is irrelevant. These questions draw the wrong attention, and end up polluting more then they do good. Finding one gem in a hundred questions is not a good guideline at all. | |
| Sep 28, 2011 at 8:25 | history | answered | slhck | CC BY-SA 3.0 |