Timeline for Update the FAQ to disallow any product recommendation questions
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| Oct 16, 2011 at 9:29 | comment | added | Daniel Beck Mod | The problem is that it is not covered in the FAQ. If I'm looking for a (free) web browser, email client, multi-protocol IM client I'm not looking for a shopping or buying recommendation as I don't want to or am required to pay for it. That's what I referred to in my comment to the question. I might be missing a particular meaning of these terms, but unless there's a (virtual) shopping cart and checkout, I'm neither buying nor shopping. See also our comments (one of yours is quoted above) to your answer in the linked topic. | |
| Oct 16, 2011 at 9:23 | comment | added | slhck | What you're misinterpreting is that just because > At the moment only 156 of these are closed, this does not mean that the major part of those could (or should) still be closed. They weren't closed yet because it is not clear to the community that these are off-topic. This is like saying: "The police gives only 10 tickets a year to pedestrians who walk over a red light, so it's no big deal", while in reality, a lot of pedestrians do it, and all of those pedestrians should probably get a ticket, but nobody knows that it's really something you can get a ticket for. | |
| Oct 16, 2011 at 9:21 | comment | added | slhck | I think we all understand why these questions are problematic, yet the problem is: > it is already covered in the FAQ – it is not. At least not as clear as it could be. I think it wouldn't hurt to just add this. | |
| Oct 16, 2011 at 8:45 | history | edited | BinaryMisfitMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 16, 2011 at 8:35 | history | answered | BinaryMisfitMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |