Timeline for How should we handle questions that don't have a satisfactory answer but can't be pursued any longer?
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| Dec 5, 2014 at 23:46 | comment | added | HopelessN00b Mod |
@austinian For me it's 5th: other (needs ♦ moderator attention) This question needs a moderator's attention. Please describe exactly what's wrong.
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| Dec 5, 2014 at 22:38 | vote | accept | austinian | ||
| Dec 5, 2014 at 22:24 | comment | added | austinian | @HopelessN00b That's the third option, the one where you leave an explanation, right? I think that's the one I chose. | |
| Dec 5, 2014 at 21:48 | comment | added | HopelessN00b Mod | @austinian Done. Next time, you should probably flag for mod attention. Flagging for close just puts it in the close vote queue. | |
| Dec 5, 2014 at 20:56 | comment | added | austinian | I've already added a flag asking for the question to be closed, cause I felt the same way about the uselessness of an "answer: wiped" for pretty much the reason in the link @Iain commented. | |
| Dec 5, 2014 at 20:03 | comment | added | 200_success | @HopelessN00b Downvotes are fine. That's why I took care to separate the question (which raises awareness of the issue) from the proposal (which is just one idea for handling it). Hopefully someone will come up with a better proposal. | |
| Dec 5, 2014 at 20:01 | comment | added | HopelessN00b Mod | @200_success 4 minutes and 2 downvotes. That's mSE for you. Don't take it too hard, though. I hear that some among us say that mSE is where good ideas go to die, so you're in good company, at least. | |
| Dec 5, 2014 at 19:57 | comment | added | 200_success | I've filed a feature request to Meta Stack Exchange. | |
| Dec 5, 2014 at 17:25 | comment | added | user9517 | meta.serverfault.com/questions/6595/… is also relevant here | |
| Dec 5, 2014 at 17:10 | comment | added | HopelessN00b Mod | @200_success Not sure what you're looking for here... isn't "question is unanswerable" a good reason to stop accepting more answers to a question? I'm pretty sure there's a more ... directly on point meta thread about this that I can't locate, but here's an older one which suggests deletion or locking. Of course, if the question and answers still provide value, despite being unresolvable, closure is the better option in my opinion. | |
| Dec 5, 2014 at 16:44 | comment | added | 200_success | What would be cited as the reason for closure? What action should the author of the question take to get to that state? | |
| Dec 5, 2014 at 16:33 | history | answered | HopelessN00bMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |