Timeline for Are "Guessing Game" type questions allowed on SU?
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| Mar 20, 2017 at 10:18 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Mar 6, 2013 at 2:43 | vote | accept | Karan | ||
| Dec 27, 2012 at 0:57 | comment | added | Karan | @IvoFlipse, slhck, random: Here's another one on similar lines (hardware-identification) posted just now. | |
| Dec 27, 2012 at 0:46 | comment | added | Journeyman Geek Mod | I note, while it dosen't have as wide an audience, if we're trying to remember a specific app, chat might work. As always though questions asking for a solution to a problem tends to work better since you might find something new you have never thought of | |
| Dec 26, 2012 at 21:47 | answer | added | randomMod | timeline score: 6 | |
| Dec 26, 2012 at 21:45 | comment | added | Ivo Flipse Mod | FWIW I disagree with the decision of the Movies or Scifi sites and regret that there hasnt been an excutive ban on them from the SE team. However, I would say these questions are far less likely on SU, you dont typically ask to identify an app, but rather you simply ask how to do the task the app performed, which requires less quessing. So most often there's no need for a quessing game. | |
| Dec 26, 2012 at 20:50 | comment | added | Karan | Thanks, that meta question helps. In this case I flagged because I assumed it was policy but was still slightly unsure, so thought it best that a mod should take the final call (I wasn't shirking responsibility or trying to hide my voting preference or getting someone else to do the dirty work for me). Anyway, hope a general consensus emerges - I'm fine either way - vox populi FTW! :) | |
| Dec 26, 2012 at 20:45 | comment | added | slhck Mod | I hadn't seen you had raised multiple flags for "guessing game" questions although you had vote to close privileges, so please excuse that inconsistency. We usually don't close on behalf of users with vote to close privileges, see: How should my flagging change when I gain the ability to vote to close? — but yeah, let's see what others think! :) | |
| Dec 26, 2012 at 20:42 | comment | added | Karan | "it really seemed like no one else would find themselves asking the same question" - Wouldn't that probably describe the other question just as well? Anyway, let's forget that specific question and focus on this as a general SU policy-related issue. | |
| Dec 26, 2012 at 20:40 | comment | added | slhck Mod | FWIW, I closed the question about distributed storage because it really seemed like no one else would find themselves asking the same question (also take into account ~80 views within one year), and if someone had a real "distributed storage" problem that needed solving they could just ask about what they wanted to do. The other side of the medal is font identification questions, which we really don't allow and where one "How to identify fonts" question should suffice. | |
| Dec 26, 2012 at 20:29 | history | asked | Karan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |