Timeline for When is a request for product recommendations not a request for product recommendations?
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:50 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/ with https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:14 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://serverfault.com/ with https://serverfault.com/
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| Apr 14, 2016 at 18:04 | comment | added | HBruijn Mod | Software Recommendations is no longer in beta and a complementary Hardware Recommendations Stack Exchange community (still in beta) has also been formed. | |
| Feb 26, 2014 at 23:22 | comment | added | Michael Hampton Mod | @PaulGear I would start by not explicitly asking "What products are out there?" Instead, define the end state, what you want to accomplish, and then any constraints. And I'd personally lose the bullet list and rewrite any necessary parts of it in prose, but that's mainly style. | |
| Feb 26, 2014 at 23:20 | comment | added | ewwhite | @PaulGear (it probably shouldn't have been closed). I'm not a fan of hard closing of product questions. Sometimes people need what they need! | |
| Feb 26, 2014 at 23:12 | comment | added | Paul Gear | @ewwhite Which is precisely the type of question I asked. Or tried to - suggestions gratefully accepted for edits that would make this clearer. | |
| Feb 25, 2014 at 23:48 | comment | added | ETL | "What is the best design for XYZ" versus "What design have people used to solve XYZ" I guess is the difference. "the best" is an opinion which does not work, "what solution have you use" is some data you can use to form your opinion. | |
| Feb 25, 2014 at 22:32 | comment | added | ewwhite | @PaulGear The Apple backup solution question resulted from a glaring lack of guidance about this requirement and silence from Apple on how their software should be used in larger environments. My question was intended to solicit opinions and solutions devised by other people in my situation. It was not "what software should I buy?" is different than "How have you solved this problem?" | |
| Feb 21, 2014 at 23:49 | comment | added | Paul Gear | I guess our main point of difference is that I don't consider the overall question a shopping question. I consider it a design question. serverfault.com/questions/575357/… seems much more shopping-centric in comparison. Perhaps I just need to improve my wording. | |
| Feb 21, 2014 at 15:00 | history | answered | Michael HamptonMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |