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| Oct 5, 2015 at 21:52 | comment | added | Shavais | What value does closing a question add to the set of answers a person can find on a Stack Exchange site? Isn't the goal to help facilitate valueable communication? How does shutting people up contribute toward that goal? "This isn't the right place for that question." Fine, so vote to move it to the right place and vote to create a better place if there isn't one. But don't shut people up, that's wrong on way too many levels for way too many reasons. | |
| Oct 5, 2015 at 21:29 | comment | added | Shavais | It seems most likely to me that if I'm in the minority view, I'm in the minority of the vocal minority, and the silent majority out there, full of people who don't have time for this kind of discussion or this kind of voting is probably far and away in agreement with me. We use Stack Exchange to Communicate. It is The Best way we have to do that. Disallowing questions doesn't help us do that, it prevents us from doing that. The value of Stack Exchange is how well it facilitates that communication. Dissallowing whole categories of questions dramatically reduces that value. | |
| Oct 5, 2015 at 21:24 | comment | added | Shavais | Categorizing questions might add some value, but dissallowing whole categories of questions subtracts a whole lot of value. | |
| Oct 5, 2015 at 21:21 | comment | added | Shavais | Isn't part of the whole point of Stack Exchange that you can vote up newer and better answers and vote down older answers that aren't as good anymore? I guess the objection to that is it takes too much time to overcome all the voting momentum behind the older answers? But if something is obsolete sooner, then that momentum plays less of a role, right? And anyway, if the problem is obsolesence, what in the world do we do with all those obsolete answers to non-shopping list questions that have way too much voting momentum behind them? | |
| Feb 20, 2012 at 1:49 | comment | added | Sven | @Razor: It doesn't matter if this example is still useful after 2 years, because it could have been useless by now. We don't know beforehand so we just don't do shopping questions at all, no exceptions. | |
| Feb 19, 2012 at 22:31 | comment | added | Razor | I'd argue that the examples in that "shopping question" post are way different from that question (not asking "for the best registrar", but for a registrar with specific features), and the conclusion "the best recommendations will be obsolete within a year" does not apply in this case as the similar linked question looks quite popular/useful after more than 2 years. | |
| Feb 19, 2012 at 22:30 | comment | added | Ward - Trying Codidact Mod | And, as you can see in the Vote To Close chat room (I see you're looking at that right now), the older question is also up for closing. That type of shopping/survey question was accepted in the early days, but now they're routinely closed. | |
| Feb 19, 2012 at 22:13 | history | answered | user9517Mod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |