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Regarding SO, it suffers from a strange form of cognitive dissonance: A. You can't ask "what's the best way to do X" because, for whatever reason, these kind o
by moralestapia 6y ago
Regarding SO, it suffers from a strange form of cognitive dissonance:
A. You can't ask "what's the best way to do X" because, for whatever reason, these kind of questions are not aligned with "the site's scope".
but
B. When you ask something specific, you get a lot of "it's better if you do X" answers. I even have had some really nice questions closed because some mods thought I was "asking the wrong thing".
Both behaviors are allowed and encouraged ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
- anigbrowl 6y agoI have also been perplexed by that. I think it's a kind of gatekeeping similar to notability policing on Wikipedia.
- ziml77 6y agoI wonder... What if you made a slight phrasing adjustment to ask "what is the idiomatic way to do X?" Would SO be fine with that? It sounds less like a question inviting opinions even if in many cases the answers will be exactly the same as using the word "best".