Timeline for Request for help with a question closed as "not constructive"
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| Oct 29, 2012 at 17:02 | comment | added | bmike | I can't post an answer when it's closed. I still don't know the answer, but it'll look a little like this when it's done. I wish you success in the contest but even with one running this really struck me as the community pre-emptively shutting down someone that came to learn without a rich MS Windows depth of knowledge. I could see closing it if the question ran off the rails with wild discussions or contentious answers, but this one was killed in the crib. | |
| Oct 29, 2012 at 16:29 | comment | added | Oliver Salzburg Mod | @bmike: Well, one thing that can make a difference in people's decision to vote to close a question is an existing answer. Maybe people read your question and go "It's obvious! Nothing can go wrong" (just like me). But if you post your own answer to it (which is encouraged), people might go "Oh ok, that's what he's after". Maybe the question does have merit but it's not obvious from the question alone. But I don't want to imply that this is the course you should take with this question. Optimally questions stand on their own | |
| Oct 29, 2012 at 16:20 | comment | added | bmike | Sincere thanks - I am really trying to learn how to fit in here. I personally don't like CW and wouldn't ask this be changed to that (but it's your site and I'll respect what happens even if I question it a little). I will probably write a blog post and offer you guys first crack at it and publish it on Ask Different if it's not your cup of tea. I have had hundreds of times where Parallels and VMware kernel extensions cause problems on OS X. Also, if you enable home folder syncing all sorts of trouble can crop up so I would say the "your computer won't be affected" is not true generally. | |
| Oct 29, 2012 at 16:19 | history | edited | Oliver SalzburgMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 29, 2012 at 16:16 | comment | added | Oliver Salzburg Mod | @bmike: I'm sure you're right and I also feel like a question like that could be useful. But the question would be likely to generate a list of things to look out for. There is no single correct answer. We refer to this as a "question that generates a list of correct answers". These types of questions are not welcome on Super User. Unless you want to make a community wiki and you have a starter answer to go with the question. To my understanding, Ask Different is less strict in that regard. So I definitely understand if this closure feels unwarranted. | |
| Oct 29, 2012 at 16:08 | comment | added | bmike | It's not obvious to me with 10 years of virtualization experience that nothing could go wrong and you are correct I hadn't tried the install when I asked for help. The specific issue is some people don't know to choose 32 bit or 64 bit or VMWare or Parallels or Virtual Box let alone that choosing the defaults will or will not work on an OS that's been out for 4 days. I can assure you, from a user of my background installing a new OS virtually is not a slam dunk. | |
| Oct 29, 2012 at 16:00 | history | answered | Oliver SalzburgMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |