Timeline for What's the correct policy when encountering a question that has no possible answer
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| Mar 9, 2014 at 6:25 | comment | added | Michael Hampton Mod | When you're beating your own head with a hammer, "stop doing that" may well be a reasonable answer. I can't speak to other "forums" but around here we ask for context in part in order to determine if someone actually is in such a situation and a better way can be found to solve the underlying problem. | |
| Mar 6, 2014 at 7:19 | comment | added | user9517 | Asking 'why' is perfectly reasonable as many people get stuck in x/y when there may be other better solutions they just aren't aware of. The community are the moderators. The Moderators are the exception handlers - that's the way things are on SE. Not all problems have solutions (at least not from a free service). | |
| Mar 5, 2014 at 17:14 | comment | added | ChrisAdmin | I agree with your caveat's | |
| Mar 5, 2014 at 12:52 | comment | added | Rob Moir | I'd agree (I'm already perfectly happy to ignore questions I've got no interest in, and I suspect most others too), with the caveat that sometimes I/we understand what someone is asking for perfectly well, sometimes we understand the implications better than the person asking the question, and in that case its perfectly valid to vote to close a question or to answer it in a way that points out potential flaws, etc. | |
| Mar 5, 2014 at 12:11 | history | answered | ChrisAdmin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |