Timeline for Is the rebranding of this site intended to change the acceptability of pure opinion questions?
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| Sep 26, 2016 at 6:21 | comment | added | Doc Brown | @RobertHarvey: indeed, best example for this is this meta question ;-) | |
| Sep 26, 2016 at 6:15 | comment | added | Robert Harvey | @DocBrown: People ask questions that have a flawed premise all the time. Sometimes that's why they ask, because they simply don't understand. | |
| Sep 26, 2016 at 6:10 | comment | added | Doc Brown | @RobertHarvey: if the one who asked that question would have been "fundamentally misguided", he would not have asked this question, I guess? It seems he is on the right track, only looking for some factual arguments against his colleague. | |
| Sep 25, 2016 at 0:08 | history | edited | Robert Harvey | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 24, 2016 at 23:49 | history | edited | Robert Harvey | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 24, 2016 at 23:10 | comment | added | Robert Harvey | Your second example that you just added is not "let's debate two buzzwords." It is, in fact, in the same category as the first: fundamentally misguided, and the correct answer is readily apparent. | |
| Sep 24, 2016 at 23:09 | comment | added | Robert Harvey | Sure. Sometimes restraint is the best policy. Someone asked the other day why the caret was chosen to represent XOR in some programming language. I strongly asserted that such questions were off-topic here, until he said "I'm creating a programming language." My reply: "Why didn't you just say so in the first place?" | |
| Sep 24, 2016 at 23:01 | comment | added | bmargulies | Another angle here is this: to me, the question of 'readability' is so wildly subjective that any question that mentions it makes me twitch, even, if in this case, there is an answer that does not turn on the bikeshed aspect. | |
| Sep 24, 2016 at 22:59 | comment | added | Robert Harvey | Unfortunately there are still a lot of participants on Programmers that want to bikeshed such questions. It's currently up to a small contingent of veteran users to keep such questions at bay (that one is "primarily opinion-based"). We're hoping that such questions will diminish after the name change. | |
| Sep 24, 2016 at 22:57 | comment | added | bmargulies | My perception, FWIW, is that you get a lot of questions that are in the same general area as 'what indentation is the correct indentation,' and they not only aren't closed, they are upvoted and show up as 'network hot questions'. | |
| Sep 24, 2016 at 22:39 | history | answered | Robert Harvey | CC BY-SA 3.0 |