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The trouble is that the proportion of quality content that ends up getting closed for arbitrary, capricious, and downright infuriating reasons (just read the te
by billforsternz 13y ago
The trouble is that the proportion of quality content that ends up getting closed for arbitrary, capricious, and downright infuriating reasons (just read the text of the "explanation" in this case) is enormous. Often when looking for answers on Stack Overflow I find all of the useful answers are closed. This makes no sense and reflects the stubborn attitudes of the decision makers there, nothing else.
- rtpg 13y agoout of curiosity,do you have an example of useful answers that are closed? I've found a lot of interesting answers that are closed, but not really "useful" in the SO sense: something that answers a specific question.
- billforsternz 13y agoSorry, late reply; I suppose it comes down to the definition of "a specific question". Often I will be looking for recommended tools/resources/approaches. Look at something like http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17489/best-environment-for-python-on-windows http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17489/best-environment-fo... I like questions like this being closed, particularly if they draw out a ton of useful information like this one. Maybe my pain could be eased a little if they had some better boilerplate explanations. To me "Not constructive" in this case is just misleading, wrong and rude.
- billforsternz 13y agos/like/don't like