Timeline for Are "explain the technology to me" questions on-topic?
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| Jan 13, 2012 at 0:14 | comment | added | haimg | @DanielBeck: No, we are not expanding the range de-facto, we may be expanding the range de-jure. The "non-actual-problem-related" questions are seemingly allowed, but the highlighted part of the FAQ lists them as disallowed. I want to encourage good on-topic answerable relevant questions, even if they are not about an actual problem, by changing that sentence, and bad questions can still be closed as they are either not "practical" or not "answerable" or "off-topic". | |
| Jan 13, 2012 at 0:05 | comment | added | Daniel Beck Mod |
So by doing this change, we'd expand the range of acceptable questions? While currently there are probably some questions that aren't on topic according to the letter of the FAQ, it makes it easier to close bad, really off topic questions because they aren't even in the grey area anymore where it's a judgment call. The FAQ is broken anyway (software-rec comes to mind)... What positive effects do you think this change would have?
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| Jan 13, 2012 at 0:01 | comment | added | haimg | @DanielBeck: "Actionable" deals with reasons. We don't know WHY the user asked a question (unless he explains, e.g. I was picking my nose and decided to ask...), thus I consider all these questions "actionable", e.g. you cannot close a question as non-actionable. "Actionable" is only good for self-moderation it seems. | |
| Jan 12, 2012 at 23:16 | comment | added | Daniel Beck Mod | Makes sense. I was just looking for topics that might not fit well with that criterion. If you have the time, it'd be great if you could tell me which you consider not actionable and why. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10. | |
| Jan 12, 2012 at 23:05 | comment | added | haimg | @DanielBeck: Yes. As opposed to the idle questions "I was wondering why xxx" that some people ask when simply bored. Please edit if you know a better word than "actionable" for that. | |
| Jan 12, 2012 at 23:00 | comment | added | Daniel Beck Mod | Actionable as in answers allow the user to do something he couldn't or wasn't sure was a good idea? | |
| Jan 12, 2012 at 22:40 | history | answered | haimg | CC BY-SA 3.0 |