Timeline for Are questions on the form "will hardware component X work in my system?" really seeking "hardware shopping recommendations"?
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| Mar 20, 2017 at 10:04 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jun 2, 2015 at 7:56 | comment | added | user | @Ramhound Server Fault currently has six site-specific close reasons. Stack Overflow has five (plus "belongs elsewhere" and "other/custom"). Super User has three (plus "belongs elsewhere" and "other/custom"). Yes, three is the default limit, but as I said, extra slots are available if there is a specific need (it just needs a moderator to ask for them and explain why it's needed, preferably pointing toward community consensus on the site's respective meta). So whatever the ultimate limit is, it's not a "physical" limit at three. | |
| Jun 1, 2015 at 15:14 | comment | added | Ramhound | @MichaelKjörling - There is a physical limit to the number though we are currently at that limit from my understanding. We would have to replace a current reason. | |
| Jun 1, 2015 at 12:53 | comment | added | user | @Ramhound Sites can ask for additional site-specific close reason slots if there is a specific need. Server Fault recently got one more (possibly temporary) for control panel-related questions, and Stack Overflow has several. While obviously we shouldn't overdo it, the option to expand is there. | |
| Jun 1, 2015 at 12:48 | comment | added | Ramhound | @MichaelKjörling - The number of closed reasons we can have is limited. One of those options is "I'm voting to close this question as off-topic ..." so from my perspective, its working with what we have and the system. Those users who can vote if a question is not on topic can either disagree or agree from my perspective at that point. | |
| Jun 1, 2015 at 12:44 | comment | added | Ramhound | @MichaelKjörling - Which is the reason I said to use a custom close reason, indicate that answers to the question would become, "outdated fast and only useful to the author" that way people can vote on a proper reason to close. | |
| Jun 1, 2015 at 12:42 | comment | added | user | @slhck You'd probably have to put half of Worldbuilding on hold, but I know what you mean. :-) Note the difference between "are these questions on topic?" and "is this how the close reason is meant to be applied?"; my question here now is primarily about the latter. | |
| Jun 1, 2015 at 12:42 | comment | added | slhck Mod | I think I'm speaking on behalf of all mods and a majority of community members when I say that we'd like to have too localized back. Maybe under a different name. | |
| Jun 1, 2015 at 12:40 | comment | added | user | @Ramhound We used to have the "too localized" close reason, which was removed a year and a half ago if I recall correctly. Unrelated close reasons should not be substituted; if there is consensus that questions on that form are not wanted, then we should have a close reason that covers those explicitly in some manner. | |
| Jun 1, 2015 at 12:39 | answer | added | slhckMod | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jun 1, 2015 at 12:38 | comment | added | Ramhound | They are not "hardware shopping recommendations" per say but I also fail to see how they are helpful to the community beyond a very limited scope ( basically the user who is asking ). If anything people should be indicating that the question itself is only helpful for an extremely limited amount of time, basically the same reasons, hardware recommendations are not allowed. | |
| Jun 1, 2015 at 12:29 | history | asked | user | CC BY-SA 3.0 |