Timeline for Please vote on proposed changes to our policy on tablet computers
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| Jun 20, 2012 at 17:28 | comment | added | nhinkle Mod | @killermist in the larger scope of things, I think the dilution will be minimal. We get ~200 questions/day. If we start getting 210 questions/day, 10 of which are tablet questions, it's not going to dilute it significantly. | |
| Jun 20, 2012 at 17:13 | comment | added | killermist | @nhinkle You may be right, but I guess that part of my concern is that these tablets aren't a computer, and will probably dilute the discussion even more, maybe leading to other users like myself progressively losing interest in SU and migrate in the directions of the more specific niches like Unix/Linux, Ubuntu, etc., which I think could be detrimental to SU. But, I'm just one guy that personally thinks that tablets are unequal to computers. | |
| Jun 20, 2012 at 16:38 | comment | added | nhinkle Mod | @killermist you need to get past the name of the site and realize that at the end of the day, we're a place to ask questions about computers. The people who answer are usually "super users," but that doesn't mean we aren't a resource for everybody. | |
| Jun 20, 2012 at 16:07 | comment | added | James Mertz | @killermist However office questions are viable here, and that's the way that it's been. The fact is, that Super User is a melting pot of topics that are allowed. This was the idea from it's creation. This doesn't mean we just allow anything, but we should be ready for the fact that there is going to be addition/subtractions as technology and other SE sites progress. | |
| Jun 20, 2012 at 12:37 | comment | added | killermist | @IvoFlipse Personally, I consider Office questions off-topic, I skip them immediately, both because they hold no interest for me, and because I probably wouldn't have an answer in the first place. Maybe that's prejudicial of me, but questions regarding Office just don't seem "superusery" to me, and they aren't why I'm here. I have administrated many machines over many years. I've occasionally had just-user grade questions, but often they sharpened me as an administrator. Office, doesn't sharpen anyone. (personal opinion) | |
| Jun 20, 2012 at 12:25 | comment | added | killermist | I formulated this thought well in the previous thread, so I'm just copying: I know this will sound condescending, but there's nothing to do for it, so here goes. A user that can't distinguish between a Windows RT tablet and a Windows 8 computer is NOT acting as a superuser. That being said if THEY don't know what they have, then their questions are likely to confuse those trying to give them answers, because responders will first have to decipher what the question is in the first place. I don't advocate leaving them out in the cold. But, this isn't the right place for those questions. | |
| Jun 20, 2012 at 12:15 | comment | added | Ivo Flipse Mod | Are you a Super User within Office? There are plenty of questions left about a device without ever having to change the software | |
| Jun 20, 2012 at 12:11 | comment | added | killermist | This is a slippery slope argument (and not a good one). The user never really will get to act as a superuser on WinRT/ARM tablets because via hardware lock-in, Microsoft will be permanently seated as the absentee-landlord superuser of something the user just happens to own. My simple rule of thumb, if the user isn't able to act as a superuser, then it isn't a superuser question. And with MS the administrator/superuser of the hardware, the user can never be the superuser. | |
| Jun 20, 2012 at 9:38 | comment | added | HaydnWVN | Isn't that the way it should work though? Flexible answers and solutions are easier than having flexible questions asked... As they won't be lol :) | |
| Jun 20, 2012 at 9:31 | comment | added | Daniel Beck Mod | @nhinkle Actually, it does. We're already broadening question scope to make questions on topic. If the user only gets answers that don't apply to his particular situation, tough. | |
| Jun 20, 2012 at 9:29 | comment | added | nhinkle Mod | @HaydnWVN that's basically why this whole thing came up, and you hit the nail in the head. It doesn't make sense to say "you can ask about Windows 8 Metro all you want. Unless it's running on ARM." | |
| Jun 20, 2012 at 9:27 | comment | added | HaydnWVN | The underlying 'user' questions associated with Windows 8 on ARM will 90% apply to the x86 version of the OS. It's just what to do with those 10% of questions which may be specific to ARM, personally I think it would be silly to shuffle those off elsewhere. You'd seem to be dividing the Windows 8 tablet community. | |
| Jun 20, 2012 at 9:11 | comment | added | Daniel Beck Mod | We never cared about what other sites exist for a certain topic, and shouldn't start now. Windows 8 on ARM does not run any of today's Windows software, so it's hardly more of a "real computer" than Android, iOS and Web OS devices. | |
| Jun 20, 2012 at 9:00 | comment | added | nhinkle Mod |
@JourneymanGeek there is a specific Windows Phone site, but a) Windows 8 isn't Windows Phone, and b) part of the problem here is that there'll be a lot of Windows 8 questions that could apply to either type, and we want to avoid splitting them up. I agree that a windows-rt tag would be appropriate for questions that are specific to the ARM version though, if we end up allowing them in one way or another.
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| Jun 20, 2012 at 8:59 | comment | added | Journeyman Geek Mod | I'd think this might be a viable solution unless there was a windows phone SE site. I'd suggest that we'd insist these questions be tagged specifically windows8-rt perhaps, both to avoid confusion and so we can migrate these easily. | |
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