Timeline for Should "What are the advantages of X" questions be closed?
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| Jun 17, 2015 at 21:55 | comment | added | DoubleDouble | The "can of worms" analogy is a strange one to use here for me. I would open the can to get candy. If its worms, who cares? I'll just go fishing. Or throw away the can. If a question or answers have potential I think we should keep them until its proven they are not useful. | |
| Jun 16, 2015 at 12:31 | comment | added | Raystafarian | @Braiam the only winning move is not to play. | |
| Jun 15, 2015 at 15:22 | comment | added | Braiam | That you can, doesn't mean that you will. Is like opening a can of worms. You can get either candy or worms, but everyone knows that the winning move is always not opening it. | |
| Jun 15, 2015 at 9:00 | comment | added | Erik I | @random says: "That's not a good example. That's pointing to an FAQ of an external site, outside the network". It is a perfectly good example that you can answer such questions in a way that is not "primarily opinion based". | |
| Jun 15, 2015 at 8:57 | comment | added | Erik I | Furthermore: When lots of questions lots of people find constructive hits a brick wall of "primarily opinion based" it might be time to at least create a different boilerplate text: "closed because someone thinks this can easily collect less primarily opinion based answers". But of course by now you all now that I'd rather want someone sit down and think through the scope of the site carefully. | |
| Jun 15, 2015 at 8:52 | comment | added | Erik I | @random "Show me how to decide this or that way" is close enough for me. | |
| Jun 12, 2015 at 19:47 | comment | added | random Mod | SU is still not "show me the sales pitch" but "show me how to fix this issue". You ask for consistency, we're applying it. That you don't agree with the scope doesn't mean we're being inconsistent. | |
| Jun 12, 2015 at 19:01 | comment | added | Camilo Martin | @random Apart from being "pointing to an external FAQ" (which arguably seems like a good enough resource), I don't see what makes it a bad example. It is a case where advantages and disadvatages have clear, non-opinion-based meanings, and that's the point Erik was trying to make. | |
| Jun 11, 2015 at 16:45 | comment | added | random Mod | That's not a good example. That's pointing to an FAQ of an external site, outside the network, outside the norms and procedures of Super User. And again, we didn't say to go out and run a search to close all in one sitting, they're closed as they're happened upon. | |
| Jun 11, 2015 at 12:26 | history | answered | Erik I | CC BY-SA 3.0 |