Timeline for Recommendations for the BEST?
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| Sep 30, 2011 at 14:54 | comment | added | Pops | I always thought the FAQ did reflect this, and that the community/mods here just ignored the rule. To be honest it's always kind of discouraged me from using SU. | |
| Sep 30, 2011 at 8:42 | comment | added | slhck | Also, I think it's very important to take into account the context of the problem that needs to be solved, as mentioned in my answer here. | |
| Sep 30, 2011 at 8:40 | comment | added | slhck | Nope, you're not the only one, @Daniel -- at least the FAQ should somehow reflect that, which it does not as of now. | |
| Sep 30, 2011 at 5:58 | comment | added | Daniel Beck Mod | Regarding very specific requirements for questions: there are no variants or products based on basically the same components that behave quite similarly. The issue of needing to know more about a user's situation before being able to recommend a specific program comes up rarely, in my experience. | |
| Sep 30, 2011 at 5:54 | comment | added | Daniel Beck Mod | Software isn't as quickly outdated, a major reason to not allow them in the blog post. All examples in that post are hardware. The FAQ clearly states shopping/buying, neither of which applies to free software/freeware. If this is really policy and, as a rule, we allow no recommendation questions at all, you really need to update the FAQvor properly document the rules somewhere. I managed to participate for over a year and be unaware of that, and sent my share of users to read both your blog post and the FAQ... (I'm stupid, i know, but probably not the only one) | |
| Sep 30, 2011 at 1:41 | history | answered | Jeff Atwood | CC BY-SA 3.0 |