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I think stackoverflow is working just fine, it's just weird. For example a question I posted recently I got a great answer in minute or so, as well as grumpy co

I think stackoverflow is working just fine, it's just weird. For example a question I posted recently I got a great answer in minute or so, as well as grumpy comments and closed. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21889666/facial-recognition-software-that-can-detect-eye-positions http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21889666/facial-recogniti...

shagie 13y ago
On Programmers.StackExchange there is some additional about the recommendation for a tool, library or other: http://meta.programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/6483/why-was-my-question-closed-or-down-voted/6487#6487 http://meta.programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/6483/why... One of the bits in that is a note of a Stack Exchange for Software Recommendations - http://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com http://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com which can deal with recommendation questions. This is a social example of 'branch on incompatible policy' from vcs. http://www.bradapp.com/acme/branching/branch-creation.html#PolicyBranch http://www.bradapp.com/acme/branching/branch-creation.html#P... Key to asking there is making sure there is enough information being presented so that someone can give the right recommendation: http://meta.softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/336/ http://meta.softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/336/
sampo 13y ago
You probably should not have used `linux` and `osx` tags for such a specific question.
- justinhj 13y ago
  I was looking for a solution that worked on either
  - sampo 13y ago
    Yeah, but it injected your question to the feeds of people who follow the `linux` or `osx` tag, 99.9+% of whom have no idea how to answer your question, and this resulted in some of them closing your question as off-topic. Whereas, the people following the `image-processing` and `face-recognition` would probably (my guess) not have closed your question as off-topic.

shagie 13y ago

On Programmers.StackExchange there is some additional about the recommendation for a tool, library or other: http://meta.programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/6483/why-was-my-question-closed-or-down-voted/6487#6487 http://meta.programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/6483/why... One of the bits in that is a note of a Stack Exchange for Software Recommendations - http://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com http://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com which can deal with recommendation questions. This is a social example of 'branch on incompatible policy' from vcs. http://www.bradapp.com/acme/branching/branch-creation.html#PolicyBranch http://www.bradapp.com/acme/branching/branch-creation.html#P... Key to asking there is making sure there is enough information being presented so that someone can give the right recommendation: http://meta.softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/336/ http://meta.softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/336/

sampo 13y ago

You probably should not have used `linux` and `osx` tags for such a specific question.

justinhj 13y ago
I was looking for a solution that worked on either
- sampo 13y ago
  Yeah, but it injected your question to the feeds of people who follow the `linux` or `osx` tag, 99.9+% of whom have no idea how to answer your question, and this resulted in some of them closing your question as off-topic. Whereas, the people following the `image-processing` and `face-recognition` would probably (my guess) not have closed your question as off-topic.