Timeline for When is a request for product recommendations not a request for product recommendations?
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| Mar 8, 2014 at 10:36 | comment | added | Paul Gear | @sorin does indeed have a point, especially about the personality pattern. Sometimes when there's a nice clean "right" answer that's well-accepted in the industry, the person with the most in-your-face answer tends to get the most upvotes. However, questions with several right-ish answers don't tend to attract the same number of upvotes, even though they are often more helpful than seeing a single "Here's what you should do" type of answer. | |
| Mar 6, 2014 at 21:38 | comment | added | ewwhite | @sorin has a point. There IS a gray area... I do think SF needs to slightly reconsider the stance because product recommendations are sometimes unavoidable. | |
| Mar 6, 2014 at 21:07 | comment | added | HopelessN00b | Lovely that you feel that way and all, but its both irrelevant and contrary to the Stack Exchange philosophy. If you want a place where questions are basically never closed, and no one cares about quality or signal-to-noise ratio, check out Yahoo! Answers. Not only can you find answers to questions about computer stuff, but you can even learn why your butt hurts after sex! | |
| Mar 6, 2014 at 14:12 | history | answered | sorin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |