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| Aug 21, 2015 at 23:51 | comment | added | Ramhound | @oliverbarnes - The type of aswer you deem acceptable isn't actually acceptable from a quality perspective. We look for more then "No; its not being worked on" because somebody could be working on it, and in 24 hours it could be outdated, the question again is a bad fit for a Q&A website. There wasn't a single moderator who voted to close your question. I don't have access to the reason(s) it was deleted though. I just recall who voted to close the question. | |
| Aug 21, 2015 at 15:39 | comment | added | oliverbarnes | "and *to my response". couldn't edit the comment to correct it. | |
| Aug 21, 2015 at 15:30 | comment | added | oliverbarnes | And yes I do have an opinion about how SE communities should work, why I like SE and how I'd like it to stay, as a long time SO user. Is that not ok to state under "Meta" either? Nor am I new to the software community, been here since 1998. We clearly have different opinions about what's welcoming and productive in a collaborative community, any community, though. I see the responses to the original question, and my response, more worried about self-justification than understanding and empathizing with an issue not only myself nor the OP are having in their initial experiences with SU. | |
| Aug 21, 2015 at 15:16 | comment | added | oliverbarnes | The problem the question addresses is Docker not running natively on OSX, which any mac user running Docker would like to know and pretty pressing if one considers it as a solution to cross-platform distribution. I disagree the only possible answer is "If and once someone sends a patch to it", though that would have been enough - it means "no, there isn't anything being worked on, nor any roadmap to it". No answer would be fine too, means I'm wrong and nobody is really interested answering the question. Question looses visibility, cool too. But closed by several moderators and deleted... | |
| Aug 21, 2015 at 0:30 | comment | added | Ramhound | @JourneymanGeek - Could not have said it better. | |
| Aug 20, 2015 at 23:31 | comment | added | Journeyman Geek Mod | This is a case of the system working as designed by SE as I see it. (Quite unlike me running out of charecters while posting this comment). A good question focuses on a specific solvable problem rather than a open ended question like that. If you'd asked "How do I get docker running on OS X natively?" and used much of the same question, you might have elicited "No it doesn't right now but" or maybe even a future answer when it does work. Its not really a question that fits the SE format IMO. Yeah, we're picky. Intolerant of dissent... I donno. I don't see it myself | |
| Aug 20, 2015 at 23:30 | comment | added | Journeyman Geek Mod | I'm not entirely certain this is an answer either but I'll roll with it. Firstly, its a very open ended question that focuses on a development timeline rather than an actual problem. I'm pretty sure a question asking when <cool programming language> gets ported to <platform> would be closed on SO, so why should we be different? Not to mention timelines slip. Consider this - you're indicating that you somehow know how things should work better than longer time users who've earned priviledges when what they did is optionally spent the time telling you why a question was closed. | |
| Aug 20, 2015 at 22:21 | comment | added | allquixotic | In your case, even a very patient, knowledgeable user would not be able to write an "epic" answer that comprehensively answers your question. Your question boiled down to whether an open source product will support a certain feature/platform in the future. The answer is always "if someone sends a patch for it, then yes. if not, then no." You could ask a general question about open source software in general and that'd be a good question, but about Docker specifically? No. | |
| Aug 20, 2015 at 22:08 | comment | added | Michael Frank | The biggest reason I would have also voted to close that question is that it will have no relevance in x days/weeks/months when they do end up supporting this feature. As a network, SE strives to create a repository of high quality Q&As that will always be relevant to the subject at hand. Questions about things that might happen in the future, especially for the development of software, are not really a good fit. | |
| Aug 20, 2015 at 21:29 | comment | added | Ramhound | Your question was unanswerable. It should have been asked in a Docker community forum, where Docker developers, would be able to answer it. I see zero "intolerance" in the comments by the two normal users. I see a huge problem with your own comments though. Feel free to read the help center to better understand, how asking if an application is being ported to OS X, is not an acceptable question here at Superuser. | |
| Aug 20, 2015 at 14:44 | history | answered | oliverbarnes | CC BY-SA 3.0 |