> "What are good resources for learning JavaScript in a weekend?" isn't a good fit for StackOverflow I can see that it's not a question which has a 'terminal'

> "What are good resources for learning JavaScript in a weekend?" isn't a good fit for StackOverflow I can see that it's not a question which has a 'terminal' set of answers. But it's not a bad question. I also think it's less flamebait-y compared to ... say, "why do people use Emacs when vim exists" or "what's the best language". From the perspective of coming across questions like this from searching for e.g. "learn JavaScript in a weekend": it's seeing a negative signal when looking for a positive one. If people are asking and answering things which I (and Google search) think are useful, then "Closed, don't want this" seems a bit of an obstacle. > Why are people disapproving of closed questions? My main interaction with StackOverflow is visiting it from the search engine result page. The most common kind of closed question I see (from memory) is "closed as duplicate". The answers to the question I came across aren't the same as the question it duplicates. I think I'd notice this less if the answers were just merged. -- But, I'd also be concerned about if it's falsely marked as duplicate, that'd be frustrating.