Timeline for Update the FAQ to disallow any product recommendation questions
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| Jun 12, 2020 at 13:47 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
Commonmark migration
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| Mar 17, 2017 at 8:59 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://meta.superuser.com/ with https://meta.superuser.com/
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| Sep 27, 2013 at 5:24 | history | edited | Sathyajith BhatMod |
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| Aug 14, 2012 at 14:50 | history | edited | Sathyajith BhatMod |
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| Oct 17, 2011 at 17:42 | comment | added | Daniel Beck Mod | @LordTorgamus I somehow got the impression you disagreed with this topic. Sorry about that. | |
| Oct 17, 2011 at 17:41 | comment | added | Pops | @DanielBeck, yep, exactly! | |
| Oct 17, 2011 at 17:38 | comment | added | Daniel Beck Mod | @LordTorgamus Read Jeff Adwood's answer. The problem is exactly what he writes. We prohibit (most) questions asking for shopping recommendations just like we prohibit (most) questions asking for (non-shopping) product recommendations, but only the former is mentioned in the FAQ. Yet they're treated basically the same: In exceptional cases they're tolerated, but not as a general rule. So we should either mention both, or neither, in the FAQ. That's what this topic is about. | |
| Oct 17, 2011 at 15:14 | comment | added | Pops | I feel like half my MSU activity is posting this link, but it is once again relevant: How literally does SU take "not about a shopping or buying recommendation"? | |
| Oct 16, 2011 at 8:35 | answer | added | BinaryMisfitMod | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 15, 2011 at 22:19 | history | rollback | slhck |
Rollback to Revision 2
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| Oct 15, 2011 at 22:07 | comment | added | Nifle | +1 for the question even if I disagree. It needs discussing. | |
| Oct 15, 2011 at 22:02 | answer | added | Nifle | timeline score: 4 | |
| Oct 15, 2011 at 21:42 | history | edited | Nifle | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 15, 2011 at 19:52 | history | edited | Daniel BeckMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 15, 2011 at 19:39 | comment | added | slhck | Yes, please. Don't know why that would not be appropriate (as indicated by the downvote). If it's official policy, make it clear, that's what I was saying all the time (because I didn't know it either). | |
| Oct 15, 2011 at 17:30 | comment | added | Daniel Beck Mod | @haimg Also, this only applies to questions., as the FAQ already states. | |
| Oct 15, 2011 at 17:28 | comment | added | Daniel Beck Mod | @haimg What I propose be added to the FAQ is already policy and enforced by the moderators. That's the entire reason I am for adding this to the FAQ. As should be clear from the other topic of mine I linked to, I was unaware of this policy through 800+ posts, and actually disagree with on some level. // Remember though, there's a difference between "How do I do X?" and "What is the best product that does X?" -- I like to think the former is accepted, while the latter is already what Diago calls "on dangerous ground". "What's the best software to do X" is clearly off-topic. | |
| Oct 15, 2011 at 17:18 | comment | added | haimg | So, a question "how do I do task X" and the answer "You do it with software Y" is to become off topic on SU? I thought the issue is the subjectivity and commercial bias, lots of questions are essentially a product recommendation question in disguise, don't see anything wrong with it per se. | |
| Oct 15, 2011 at 17:03 | comment | added | Daniel Beck Mod | As I'm not a native speaker of English, I might have missed a non-commercial meaning of shopping. But since these sites cater to a worldwide audience, we should make it more explicit even if this were the case. | |
| Oct 15, 2011 at 17:02 | history | asked | Daniel BeckMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |