Timeline for How to get StackOverflow moderators to put hosting questions on Webmasters instead
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| Feb 7, 2011 at 22:09 | comment | added | Chris S | @John, that's getting back to the questioner's responsibility of due diligence. It's not so much that 'shopping' questions are bad, as wildly open-ended, spam-magnet, no-representation-of-prior-knowledge questions. Which is basically what you're both trying to say I think... | |
| Feb 2, 2011 at 21:07 | comment | added | John Gardeniers | @Chopper3, I think it depends a lot on just how the question is worded. It helps immensely if the OP appears to have done some research on their own and just needs some input to help make a final decision between a few possibilities. Sadly, that's rarely that case. | |
| Feb 2, 2011 at 11:25 | comment | added | Chopper3 Mod | My slight confusion though jeff is when someone says something like "I want to buy a dual socket server for running a database on" - for those I'm quite happy to specify models by HP/Dell/IBM/whoever with set processor/mem/disk recommendations - technically that's a shopping question but I feel does fall into what we do - that's my opinion anyway. | |
| Feb 2, 2011 at 10:42 | comment | added | dunxd | In that case, can mods stop just shuffling them around and just close them altogether? | |
| Feb 2, 2011 at 10:33 | comment | added | Jeff Atwood | correct, they belong nowhere, they are shopping questions. | |
| Feb 2, 2011 at 10:23 | history | answered | Sam Cogan | CC BY-SA 2.5 |