Timeline for Should Home Networking questions be considered on topic?
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| Oct 19, 2011 at 11:49 | vote | accept | Simon Sheehan | ||
| Oct 10, 2011 at 11:27 | comment | added | BinaryMisfit Mod | @slhck Create an official question to update the FAQ with the relevant wording as a feature-request. | |
| Oct 10, 2011 at 10:17 | comment | added | slhck | I support your ideas to change the FAQ – what would be the formal way of doing this? It seems we have an agreement here. | |
| Oct 10, 2011 at 5:12 | comment | added | William Hilsum | +1 to this and @nhinkle's comment-Jeff has always said that the FAQ is just guidelines and not "law"/strict. I think I've answered many networking questions that are not specifically related to computers - to me, it is a perfect fit for this website.. Now you got me thinking - I asked a question about printer/scanners not to long ago, pretty much unrelated to computers - should that be closed as off topic? :/ It is certainly "more" off topic than networking, but, I wouldn't want to see printers.stackexchange.com and I personally think it was alright here - maybe we need bigger FAQ changes? | |
| Oct 9, 2011 at 21:41 | comment | added | BinaryMisfit Mod | @nhinkle I won't denying closing some networking questions, but often it would not be because it was a networking question, there would be other reasons behind the close. If anything we can make the change to the FAQ, but until now majority of the community has always assumed it is accepted. I do not deny there are edge cases, but those are handled like any other question that is closed. | |
| Oct 9, 2011 at 21:37 | comment | added | Simon Sheehan | I support that idea @nhinkle | |
| Oct 9, 2011 at 21:34 | comment | added | nhinkle Mod | since it isn't specifically "computer hardware or software". Perhaps we could add "computer networking" to the "question about..." list, or say "media players, cell phones or smart phones, or electronic devices except for home networking equipment or insofar as these devices interact with your computer". Obviously, as Diago has pointed out, home networking is a very super user kind of thing to do, so if we want to accept these questions (which I think we should), we ought to make that more clear. | |
| Oct 9, 2011 at 21:34 | comment | added | nhinkle Mod | After some looking around, I've found a lot of open networking-only (no specific mention of the computers involved) questions, and a few closed ones (including some closed by Diago, and some closed by others). I had been under the impression that networking questions that were only about the networking devices (and not about their use with computers specifically) were off-topic. It seems this might have been an incorrect interpretation. Perhaps this should be made more clear though? Obviously we can't state every on-topic subject in the FAQ, but this is easily interpreted as an edge-case | |
| Oct 9, 2011 at 21:08 | comment | added | Simon Sheehan | that is true, but perhaps this marks the time to start saying it, since it appears to be considered off topic by some | |
| Oct 9, 2011 at 21:06 | comment | added | BinaryMisfit Mod | @Simon We don't necessarily list every allowed topic in the FAQ. It's the first time in 2 years the question has been raised, and I know off very few networking or router questions that have been closed. | |
| Oct 9, 2011 at 21:02 | comment | added | Simon Sheehan | I think we need to explicitly state in the FAQ that we allow it. | |
| Oct 9, 2011 at 21:02 | comment | added | Simon Sheehan | see meta.superuser.com/questions/3564/… | |
| Oct 9, 2011 at 20:58 | history | answered | BinaryMisfitMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |