Timeline for Suggestion: community-sponsored (commonly off-topic) questions-"best way", "what's first"
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| Nov 25, 2015 at 6:02 | comment | added | doppelgreener | I read your question thinking we'd give them some kind of basic overview tutorial. This answer you sound like you're proposing is just a larger close reason, which is disappointing. If people weren't reading all the other close reasons, why would this do anything? At least being helpful and focused on a basic overview would be useful to people. | |
| Apr 7, 2015 at 0:56 | comment | added | Jon | Not answering their question (at all) makes them ask a new one. I've seen moderators, occasionally, put a blurb in comment as they close a question and the blurb was all the person needed to get going. Replacing the verbose "this is moderated" banners with a link gives them the same banner and explanation but also provides any relevant comment-blurbs automatically. "Deleting"(hiding) those posts would also "un-do" the damage. | |
| Apr 7, 2015 at 0:53 | comment | added | Jon | To some people, drawing their first triangle to the screen is like discovering the world isn't flat. I feel like you may have been doing this for so long, that you have lost the beginners' perspective. Someone that is already in over their head learning graphics, isn't going to come to a Q&A site and do more research to learn the personal preferences of the Q&A site. This is witnessed by the massive amount of existing off-topic questions that get posted despite the existence of 100+ other already-moderated, nearly-identical, questions. Have question, will ask. | |
| Apr 7, 2015 at 0:43 | comment | added | Anko | If someone can't be bothered to type in "game programming tutorial" into Google before asking someone, the damage is already done. Adding links to the close reason would require a bunch of maintenance and debate for what I see as little gain. | |
| Mar 27, 2015 at 23:45 | history | edited | Jon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 27, 2015 at 23:39 | history | edited | Jon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 27, 2015 at 23:04 | comment | added | Jon | (You cannot "reword" the question to make it SE-appropriate, so moderating it as such just sends it to the top of the giant [Forever Closed and Unanswered] pile) | |
| Mar 27, 2015 at 23:01 | history | answered | Jon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |