Timeline for Why are learning materials questions off-topic?
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| Jun 25, 2014 at 9:22 | vote | accept | Norman Gray | ||
| Jun 24, 2014 at 16:15 | comment | added | Norman Gray | @voretaq7 done. I've tagged it 'feature-request', rather arbitrarily. | |
| Jun 24, 2014 at 15:32 | comment | added | voretaq7 Mod | @NormanGray If you would like to propose some wording changes to the on-topic page (or other parts of the help center) open up a separate meta discussion - we can edit those pages, but editing them generates a lot of back-end notifications to the Stack Exchange community team, so we like to edit them infrequently and make sure we get the changes right the first time... | |
| Jun 24, 2014 at 15:30 | comment | added | Norman Gray | Hmm: that canonical questions page is also linked from the on-topic page, rather obviously in retrospect. I'm wondering why I didn't register that when I read that page before (it wouldn't have answered my question, but I would have been pleased to find that). All I can think is that 'common questions' isn't the magic word: 'frequently asked questions' is magic. | |
| Jun 24, 2014 at 15:30 | comment | added | voretaq7 Mod | @NormanGray The concept of "canonical questions and answers" isn't well supported by the Stack Exchange system. We've talked about adding a canonical tag to these in the past on the main site to help people discover them. | |
| Jun 24, 2014 at 15:24 | comment | added | Norman Gray | I can't say I'm persuaded, but +1 for a very direct answer to the question. The 'canonical answers' are interesting and surely useful (thanks), but could perhaps be better signposted on the faq tag page: perhaps "Here are some canonical questions and answers" would be a better title to this question (I examined the faq tag before and didn't register this as a useful link to follow). Also, having a link to the FAQ on the front page would be useful, but I appreciate that might need SE cooperation. | |
| Jun 24, 2014 at 15:01 | comment | added | voretaq7 Mod | @BigHomie That question has also been locked, unlocked, had people edit answers into the question, had multiple answers over its life, etc. -- it's a damn mess, and the war the SO C++ community has had to fight to keep it from degrading into a total clusterfuck is part of why we decided not to allow that sort of thing here. Sysadmins are WAY too lazy to curate a question like that. (We have exactly one that I can think of)) | |
| Jun 24, 2014 at 14:54 | comment | added | MDMoore313 | However, the answer on SO for that question has only been edited 12 times in 5.5 years, which strikes me as weird because the question itself has been edited 90+ times. | |
| Jun 24, 2014 at 14:53 | comment | added | MDMoore313 | +1, for ask and answer the question yourself and make SF the focus for learning. Also, I've came across the SO C++ book list, EE I believe has something similar. If it were a single Book question personally I wouldn't be opposed to it, but It'd have to be all inclusive for every tech, not a question for VPN, a question for Windows Server, a question for Exchange, a Question for RHEL, all for books, that's insane. That might not be bad, but if no one wants to curate them then that's a different matter. | |
| Jun 24, 2014 at 14:41 | history | answered | voretaq7Mod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |