Timeline for Why was “How do you configure a Windows machine for a Linux user?” closed as too broad?
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| Jan 6, 2016 at 14:20 | comment | added | Ramhound | @Gilles - I don't want to take on the responsibility of attempting to fix said question in this particular case. | |
| Jan 6, 2016 at 14:01 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | @Ramhound Then please edit the question so that it rules out the bad answers and allows the good ones, and reopen the question. This question is on-topic and answerable, so if there's something wrong with it, it can't be such a problem that it's unsuitable for Stack Exchange. | |
| Jan 6, 2016 at 13:57 | comment | added | Ramhound | I could not agree with this answer more. It does not matter if the answers are high quality, it matters that the question was extremely broad and for that reason the quality of many of the answers was severally lacking. In my opinion most of the time, a bad answer is the fault of the question, but there are few exceptions to that rule. I read a ton of questions daily | |
| Jan 4, 2016 at 22:18 | comment | added | random Mod | Two junk deleted answers, closed after it got bumped into view @bra | |
| Jan 4, 2016 at 22:10 | comment | added | Braiam | Curious question: how many deleted answers this question has and how you came across it (flag, close queue, deleted answer, whining)? | |
| Jan 4, 2016 at 14:51 | comment | added | random Mod | Bags by the river need kittens | |
| Jan 4, 2016 at 8:49 | comment | added | Stijn de Witt | @random Just want to let you know that every time you close a question, a kitten dies. Why not spend time answering questions instead of closing other peoples questions? | |
| Dec 23, 2015 at 20:10 | comment | added | fixer1234 | @Gilles: That's why there's both vanilla and chocolate ice cream. People have different opinions. :-) | |
| Dec 23, 2015 at 20:06 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | @fixer1234 And none of this makes the question any less answerable. I'm familiar with the site's constraints, thank you very much. They're met. | |
| Dec 23, 2015 at 19:46 | comment | added | fixer1234 | @Gilles: Just an observation, "make X look like Y" is better than "get the most out of X", but still a problem. X isn't Y, and often, can't be made identical to Y. So it leads to how similar is close enough, and which aspects or criteria are important. The issue isn't whether the question/answers are important and useful, its the extent to which it can be addressed well within this site's constraints. | |
| Dec 23, 2015 at 19:37 | comment | added | random Mod | Then we need to define what getting the most out of it means, in relation too to how it's been answered. Answers are currently a mix of apps to port user experience to gotchas of working under the different filesystems. Caleb's answer superuser.com/questions/282397/… highlight's how the question rides that line between too broad and primarily opinion based | |
| Dec 23, 2015 at 19:23 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | “Get the most out of X” is completely different from “make X look like Y”. The latter has a goal, the former is open-ended. I've found over and over again on Software Recommendations that having a goal (a user story) is a big part of making a question work. | |
| Dec 23, 2015 at 19:17 | comment | added | random Mod | It doesn't change the question. It's similar to one on SO asking what plugins a developer should/need to install to get the most out of their IDE. Or of Webmasters asking which add-ons they need to have their IIS server run like if they were on cPanel. Or Android Enthusiast asking what apps and configs do they need to make them feel comfortable from moving away from iOS devices | |
| Dec 23, 2015 at 19:14 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | Thank you for switching to being constructive. How would your proposal (which I don't really understand: how does it change the question? Or is it just a matter of wording?) be out of scope? | |
| Dec 23, 2015 at 19:11 | comment | added | random Mod | The name is listed as who closed the question. If you wanted to reword the question to also include the answers it would be "What apps and/or tweaks should I make to X to make it feel like Y?" and that would be out of scope | |
| Dec 23, 2015 at 19:07 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | sigh Oh, hello, random. | |
| Dec 23, 2015 at 18:44 | history | answered | randomMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |