Timeline for Shopping Question? Why?
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:14 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jul 30, 2012 at 2:47 | comment | added | Radek | Well, I am looking for a solution to my need. And seems to me obvious that it must be "a product". Because I didn't find anything and/or I could be wrong with my conclusion I asked here. | |
| Jul 30, 2012 at 2:10 | comment | added | voretaq7 Mod | @Radek I'm not sure what you want to use your question as an example of -- You are asking, essentially, for a list of products. Products in this field change so frequently that we don't like to have questions where the answers will just be a list of products. Your question is an example of a "shopping question", which is why it's closed. A suggestion to "write your own script" isn't an answer to your question, which is seeking an existing script. If you would like advice on writing such a script please edit your question. (See also the answer I will be posting here shortly) | |
| Jul 29, 2012 at 23:55 | comment | added | Radek | Why don't we use my question as an example? What different answer can I get besides some commercial product (which I don't want), or some free product, script or suggestion to write such script by myself or do it manually? | |
| Jul 29, 2012 at 23:50 | comment | added | Mark Henderson Mod | @Radek - in the case of my Hipster Fashion Trend example, there would be a new answer every 4.32 micro-seconds, as each previous answer is by default invalidated specifically because it's an answer. Now of course that's an absurd and stupid example, but for shopping questions the answers can change so often, it's just not worth the effort of keeping them up to date. Every time a new version of BooFarrer is released, do we expect someone to maintain a canonical list of all its competitors? | |
| Jul 29, 2012 at 23:47 | comment | added | Mark Henderson Mod | @Radek - this is true, any answer can be outdated. But product recommendation/shopping questions get outdated faster than a hipster fashion trend, especially in this field. Which is why we suggest asking questions like "Q: How can I tell what the latest hipster fashion trend is? A: Go to your local trendy inner-city suburb and look around you. Take one article of clothing from each person you see and wear it, preferably make sure the colours clash." rather than "Q: What's the latest hipster fashion? A: Over-sized bright-red spec frames with no glass in them and combat boots" | |
| Jul 29, 2012 at 23:46 | comment | added | Radek | I primary ask question on SE and lately there are new answers because there are new ways how to solve what ever I asked. Does it make all the other answers invalid? Or because such and such product/plugin is not underdevelopment anymore? | |
| Jul 29, 2012 at 23:44 | comment | added | Radek | But any answer can be outdated. If BarFoo 3.2 is outdated it might still be the only solution. It would be wise to find out that before installing and not complain that it wasn't stated in the question. | |
| Jul 29, 2012 at 23:38 | comment | added | Mark Henderson Mod | @WesleyDavid - don't flatter yourself, I've been flagged a few times by people other than you! | |
| Jul 29, 2012 at 23:32 | comment | added | Wesley | "After someone flagged it." <_< | |
| Jul 29, 2012 at 23:31 | comment | added | Mark Henderson Mod | (which happens to me almost every time I find myself on a non-SE site. Like Expert Sexchange, or some random vBulletin website). But yes, if you can write it in a different way, then it might pass. Check out the example I linked to in the answer above, that's a good example. | |
| Jul 29, 2012 at 23:30 | comment | added | Mark Henderson Mod | @Radek - I think you've missed the point. What if someone else in 2 years time is googling for "Best Widget to Foo the Bar with", and they find an answer here, which suggests "You should use BarFoo 3.2". But BarFoo was discontinued, so now the user has wasted 10 minutes of their life looking for something that's no good, or even worse, they tried to use BarFoo 3.2 but find out too late that it's unmaintenined when they run into trouble with it. But it wasn't unmaintained when the answer was written. And then the user goes "Bloody Server Fault, gave me a shit answer, screw them" | |
| Jul 29, 2012 at 23:28 | comment | added | Radek | Regarding your own question. I really canot grasp why something is closed if there are answers, comments, valid discussion below a question. It helps the one who asked and many in the future. If somebody doesn't like such question don't waste your time reading it. | |
| Jul 29, 2012 at 23:24 | comment | added | Radek | So, my question is not allowed or if written different way it would be ok? | |
| Jul 29, 2012 at 23:18 | history | answered | Mark HendersonMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |