Timeline for Why is "closed as not constructive" sometimes so destructive?
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| May 2, 2013 at 13:48 | comment | added | hol | @slhck Maybe I do. But as a matter of fact I will certainly stick to the StackExchange platform because it is very useful. Deleting posts down would be even worse, that is for sure. When I see a closure note I interpret this with "this is bad" and when I then look at it I often must say "this is not really bad" the question and its answers are what I was looking for. I think that was my original reason for this question "Why is ... ?" and it has throughly been answered. | |
| May 2, 2013 at 12:39 | comment | added | slhck Mod | @hol I do hope you don't see this place as unfriendly just because questions you like were closed. I understand that to some it might not make a good impression, but that makes for an even stronger reason to just delete the posts that aren't a good fit instead of keeping them around for eternity. Note that votes and close votes are completely orthogonal concepts. There is no "overruling" involved here. There are quite a few downvoted posts that aren't closed, and insanely upvoted posts that are. | |
| May 2, 2013 at 7:11 | comment | added | hol | I cannot see what is exactly so wrong with this "kind of questions". I like them and many others obviously, too, hence the many upvotes. Few can overule the many upvotes by deciding that a question is not by the rules and vote for closure. I know, I still got something wrong about "topicality" and "good order" and "purpose of this site" and "this is not a forum". So I will give in and stop arguing. But I want to make a point that popularity of questions being closed leaves some bad impression and may drives one (like me) away from this place to a more friendly place. | |
| Apr 30, 2013 at 21:31 | comment | added | Daniel Beck Mod | For the kinds of questions we get when we don't interpret the rules as strictly, see some old, now closed and/or deleted questions that were awarded gold badges in 2009 or so: superuser.com/badges/34/stellar-question superuser.com/badges/22/great-question superuser.com/badges/25/great-answer If you have 10k+ reputation, just check them out, and you might understand why we no longer want this stuff. For a site where people think differently (pun intended), check out Apple.SE. | |
| Apr 30, 2013 at 20:16 | comment | added | allquixotic | @JuergenHollfelder In my view, we need to focus on ways to add, retain, and maintain the kinds of topics/questions that we find useful and want to see on the site, without simply being "less strict" or "more tolerant". It's not a question of tolerance; it's a question of topicality. Tolerance implies accepting questions which fall outside of our good question guidelines, even though we know they do. Topicality implies adjusting the rules themselves to explicitly allow the questions we find useful. | |
| Apr 30, 2013 at 20:13 | comment | added | hol | @allquixotic Long answer and it was not TLDR. I read it all and compliment in interpreting my question better than I was able to put it in words (I mean the "unjust world" part). Next time I will come across a question that seems to me unjustly closed (or destructively closed as I phrased it) I will look at it different. I think I tend to the less strict more tolerance policy. The question I referred to was the last out of a row of closed questions I saw that I found unduly closed. This one drove me to action especially as the question was almost identical to the question in my mind. | |
| Apr 30, 2013 at 20:09 | history | edited | allquixotic | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
really tldr
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| Apr 30, 2013 at 19:48 | history | edited | allquixotic | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
:)
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| Apr 30, 2013 at 19:46 | comment | added | slhck Mod | A couple of months (years?) ago there has been an incentive to put those lists of commonly used software into the tag wikis, but unfortunately a) nobody writes those lists and b) nobody ever reads the tag wikis. | |
| Apr 30, 2013 at 19:43 | history | answered | allquixotic | CC BY-SA 3.0 |