Timeline for Placing on hold / closing too quickly
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| Mar 3, 2019 at 14:31 | comment | added | SpartanDonut | @Engineer - to continue with your analogy, in the US we have rules as to who can lead. We can't really legally elect a president who isn't a natural born citizen without first changing the system itself. No matter how strongly you believe a question should remain open because you have a good answer, does not guarantee the question fits the guidelines of the site. You've done right by coming to meta in hopes of changing the system because you see an issue. I don't think your proposed solutions to said issue improve the system and that they actually would hurt the system instead. | |
| Mar 3, 2019 at 14:23 | comment | added | SpartanDonut | I completely agree with what Josh said about the term "bad" and have updated my answer to say "off topic" in it's place as "bad" was a poor choice of wording on my part and off topic really is what I wanted to say. | |
| Mar 3, 2019 at 14:21 | history | edited | SpartanDonut | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 3, 2019 at 12:35 | comment | added | Maximus Minimus | It helps to view closure as not being a slap-down, yes. The purpose of voting to close can certainly be viewed as helping the OP, either by saying "the answer you want is on this other question" or by helping them to reform their question into a manner that's more easily answerable on an SE site. | |
| Mar 2, 2019 at 15:56 | comment | added | user1430 | I think "bad" as in "bad question" and the like is a term we should try to avoid. Many questions on this site that get closed are good questions in a vacuum, useful and informative questions that help the OP or others. Very few questions are actually "bad," what they are is "off-topic for this site" as has been determined by the community. When we use "bad" to mean "off-topic," I think we muddy the discourse (and I am just as guilty of this as the next person). | |
| Mar 2, 2019 at 7:47 | comment | added | Engineer | "If a subject matter expert thinks they have an answer to a question and the question should remain open while a majority of other voters believe the question is bad and doesn't belong then I'd be willing to bet that while the subject matter expert has a really good answer, it doesn't mean the question itself isn't bad." Er, that is EXACTLY what it means. Majority vote doesn't decide quality. That is like saying that because the majority of voters voted in a really bad leader, "that was by no means a bad choice!". Except it was. Skill / quality are objective in STEM; group voice, subjective. | |
| Feb 27, 2019 at 21:19 | history | answered | SpartanDonut | CC BY-SA 4.0 |