Timeline for Close Reasons Evaluation
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| Mar 16, 2017 at 15:50 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jan 26, 2016 at 0:56 | comment | added | user527 | @Citizen Okay, I see. The way I read it, I thought you misspoke, but now I see where you're coming from :) | |
| Jan 26, 2016 at 0:54 | comment | added | Citizen | @ᴍᴀsᴛᴇʀᴍɪɴᴅ_ᴇᴅ "If you want to keep spending the time closing the same users questions then verbiage is effective." I meant, if your trying to drive the OP away communicating with them that way, then the words your picking are probably very effective. Passive aggressive on sarcastic validation with my statement. Probably a poor choice of words on my part. :-) | |
| Jan 26, 2016 at 0:54 | comment | added | user527 | @Citizen Thanks for the insight! | |
| Jan 26, 2016 at 0:52 | comment | added | Citizen | @ᴍᴀsᴛᴇʀᴍɪɴᴅ_ᴇᴅ It's a good example of 'close hammer' fervor. We experienced it in Motor Vehicle a bit too. Now the community is providing more guidance to OP's and it seems it's affecting the return rate of regular users. We're close to graduation over there. A lot of new governance methods and newer ideologies have come into play. It's been good for the site. Unbelievably good. | |
| Jan 26, 2016 at 0:50 | comment | added | user527 | @Citizen "If you want to keep spending the time closing the same users questions then verbiage is effective." I'm not sure what you mean here. Are you trying to say that verbiage isn't effective if the same users' questions are getting closed? | |
| Jan 26, 2016 at 0:48 | comment | added | user527 | @Citizen I completely agree. I started this evaluation because I felt some reckless closing was taking place, so I brought it forth to the community. Actually, this question was the reason I started to consider doing this evaluation. | |
| Jan 25, 2016 at 22:14 | comment | added | Citizen | The closing verbiage was in no way helpful. Part of closing involves taking a moment to help the OP be successful. If you want to keep spending the time closing the same users questions then verbiage is effective. If you want to teach them how to use a QA site then them something more meaningful is in order. If you want the Beta to be successful then even some kindness and understanding and helpfulness is in order because hey, new users will make the beta successful. | |
| Dec 23, 2015 at 13:23 | comment | added | user527 | I agreed with the action of closing, I just found the close reason not helpful for the new user (although it is understood by we, the community). | |
| Dec 17, 2015 at 13:47 | comment | added | user527 | Both revised close reasons would work. "how should someone else facing the same issue work out what to buy?" is exactly how we should handle equipment recommendations. This question about finding a similar tennis racket has lots of potential if those comments were turned into answers (see this meta discussion on equipment recommendations). | |
| Dec 17, 2015 at 11:39 | comment | added | Philip Kendall Mod | ... "how should someone else facing the same issue work out what to buy?" which is much more likely to be useful a) for a different person and b) in a few years when Fulltilt or whoever else have gone bust. | |
| Dec 17, 2015 at 11:38 | comment | added | Philip Kendall Mod | Photography has/had a fairly large problem with shopping questions, and the custom close reason we have there is "Questions seeking specific product or service recommendations, where the answer is likely to be either entirely personal or short-lived as a result of changing markets, are off topic here. Please rephrase your question to describe the problem you're trying to solve or what you do not understand that prevents you from determining the answer yourself." This is good because it changes the question from "what should I personally buy" to (cont...) | |
| Dec 17, 2015 at 10:17 | comment | added | Fillet | +1 for closing, but if we take the approach from superuser: "Shopping, buying or product recommendations are off-topic" then we would have a ready-made reason without any room to be interpreted as being sarcastic. | |
| Dec 16, 2015 at 22:50 | history | edited | user527 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 15, 2015 at 14:45 | history | answered | user527 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |