Timeline for Another "why is this off-topic?" AWITOT? :-p
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| Sep 15, 2016 at 2:20 | comment | added | tudor -Reinstate Monica- | @womble I still believe that the question as asked is within the criteria, and the "benefit of the doubt" reinterpretation is what leans towards the unacceptable question and have repeatedly stated that's not what I asked. I've already accepted this answer because of the peer pressure that's clearly resulted, and I now have an answer to my original question in the comments above. I can see that we're not going to agree on this, so let's just leave it at that, please. | |
| Sep 15, 2016 at 1:46 | comment | added | womble Mod | Some people think you're asking a different question so as to give you the benefit of the doubt and not immediately close it by virtue of being unanswerable. If by "rewriting my question so that it doesn't fit the criteria", you're referring to the criteria for closure, yes, if you want your question not to be closed, you should rewrite it so that it doesn't fit the criteria for closure. If you think people are misinterpreting your question, rewrite it so it isn't ambiguous! | |
| Sep 15, 2016 at 1:19 | comment | added | tudor -Reinstate Monica- | @womble I'm sorry that you see it that way. I believe that some people think I was asking a different question than what is actually written, since the only explanation here appears to be rewriting my question so that it doesn't fit the criteria. | |
| Aug 29, 2016 at 4:06 | comment | added | womble Mod | You should ask the question you want an answer to. Asking a different question and then getting confused that you didn't get an answer for the question you didn't ask seems... unproductive. | |
| Aug 29, 2016 at 3:21 | comment | added | tudor -Reinstate Monica- | Re: The second dot point, I maintain I didn't ask the question that way because that was not what I was interested in. It was the apparent lack of information that was bizarre and I felt that was a valid question. In all reasonableness, I felt I has missed something and honestly expected an answer like "Yes, but Diameter, because it's doing something very clever, has chosen not to call them APIs, UIs or CLIs, but "Purple Fuzzy Unicorns" to emphasise that they're not working with a traditional security model. You'll need a PFU editor to interact with it this way." | |
| Aug 29, 2016 at 3:12 | comment | added | tudor -Reinstate Monica- | I came back to respond to the first dot point, but I also see that @ryan-babchishin has pointed this out, too. Just because an answer is binary, that doesn't mean it evades an explanation. The first point is misleading because, as you point out, the system wouldn't let you answer that way, and I already knew that I wouldn't get just a "yes" or "no", but an explanation that would be helpful. | |
| Aug 26, 2016 at 13:22 | comment | added | yagmoth555 Mod | @Sven not a bad point, and too, while thinking to it, to do a software recommendation for a home user for a product is something, but for an enterprise it's something else. (as it would be more professional to direct the user to a consultant) | |
| Aug 26, 2016 at 13:10 | comment | added | Sven Mod | @yagmoth555: No, I wouldn't like this. I also largely tend to ignore the existence of that site as this leads to an inconsistent application of the "no shopping" rule. | |
| Aug 26, 2016 at 13:07 | comment | added | yagmoth555 Mod | A .2c, we could try to move more often to softwarerecs.stackexchange.com by maybe adding it to our v-t-c for migration. (but we would need to remove another site from that list as it's full) | |
| Aug 26, 2016 at 9:53 | comment | added | womble Mod | Yeah, the very clear subtext to "Does X exist?" is "... and what is it?", hence why I would have slammed the linked question shut as a shopping question, too. I wanted to highlight the problems with the literal question too, though, because there was a hint of "but I wasn't asking for a product recommendation, just whether it existed!" in some of the earlier comments, and I wanted to demonstrate why the literal question wasn't a good one, either. | |
| Aug 26, 2016 at 9:28 | comment | added | Sven Mod | This is mostly my view as well, although I've to admit that I first read the question as straight product recommendation - it's really very rare that people ask "Does a product doing X exists" without at least implicitly asking to name the product as well. | |
| Aug 26, 2016 at 6:09 | vote | accept | tudor -Reinstate Monica- | ||
| Aug 26, 2016 at 6:00 | comment | added | user143703 | Thanks for posting this, I came back wanting to add two cents and see you left a dollar. The only comments I'd like to add on my personal thought process: I feel the quality of the content on serverfault has been degrading continuously for awhile now. When I vote to close I'm annoyed that I felt there was a need yet again. Basically, 'I barely care enough to even participate anymore' is the attitude I have by the time I'm responding to someone asking why. I do however appreciate the fact that you asked it here (eventually.. I kid!) and womble's response which I agree with. | |
| Aug 26, 2016 at 4:19 | history | answered | wombleMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |