Timeline for One step from being closed but nothing wrong with the question
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| Oct 17, 2024 at 17:09 | vote | accept | Niklas Rosencrantz | ||
| Aug 20, 2023 at 10:37 | comment | added | Andrew T. | @manassehkatz-Moving2Codidact SE has implemented "on hold" for the first 5 days back in 2013, but it was abolished in 2019. | |
| Aug 1, 2023 at 16:41 | comment | added | manassehkatz-Moving 2 Codidact | TL;DR Simple changing "closed" to "paused" and making the explanatory box easier to understand would go a long way. But that is NOT specific to RC, it is an SE system-wide issue. And unless the AI overlords (yes, that can be taken to mean the "overlords enamored with AI" or "the AI that is running the world" - deliberately ambiguous...) decide that improving things like "close" are more important than some other "features", this isn't changing any time soon. | |
| Aug 1, 2023 at 16:39 | comment | added | manassehkatz-Moving 2 Codidact | isn't meant to be), (b) a personal attack - i.e., "you don't know enough to even ask a question, what are you doing here" (even though it isn't meant to be) and/or (c) rude/unwelcoming - including for "closed as duplicate" because it looks like "blob of text saying we don't want you to bother asking" and which is often the fault of SE search not being very effective at finding existing answers, especially for new users who don't understand the nuances and/or may not have enough domain specific knowledge to come up with the right search terms. | |
| Aug 1, 2023 at 16:34 | comment | added | manassehkatz-Moving 2 Codidact | I think a large part of the problem is one simple little word, closed. It took me a while to understand what that means in the SE context. Outside the SE context, it typically means something like deleted. That is not what it means here. It means "we're not letting people provide answers until OP makes the question a better question" - through clarifying details, making the question more focused, changing it to be more appropriate for the site, etc. But despite the notification saying "needs clarity" (or whatever), I think a lot people see closed as (a) permanent (even though it | |
| Jul 22, 2023 at 20:44 | answer | added | Raffzahn | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jul 22, 2023 at 7:05 | comment | added | Ritesh Singh | Unfortunately, my experience also has been that SE is a judgmental, toxic environment. For example, please do look at my closed question. | |
| Jul 20, 2023 at 15:54 | comment | added | Niklas Rosencrantz | @another-dave No. Read the original question. There is no objective reason to close it! You are off-topic. | |
| Jul 20, 2023 at 12:10 | comment | added | dave | "Judgemental"? The point of meta, surely, is to put something up for discussion and resolution, which means making a judgement about the argument presented. | |
| Jul 20, 2023 at 11:39 | comment | added | Niklas Rosencrantz | @another-dave You say that about all criticism you don't want. "Don't listen, it's only a rant" is very judgemental and arrogant, you're avoiding the real issue here about what should be done when equal questions are not treated equally | |
| Jul 20, 2023 at 11:34 | history | edited | Niklas Rosencrantz | CC BY-SA 4.0 | added 26 characters in body |
| Jul 19, 2023 at 0:12 | comment | added | dave | This seems like no more than a rant. That "there was nothing wrong with the question" is opinion, an opinion clearly at odds with those who voted to close. For the record, I was one of those. My reason was that it was too vague - originally little more than "I remember a game, it ran on a Sun, and it had some men in it" (ok, I exaggerate, but you get the point?). The close reason reflects that view: needs details. | |
| Jul 18, 2023 at 13:06 | comment | added | wizzwizz4 Mod | Do we have a meta consensus about game identification questions? I find it's useful to write a comment directing people to the relevant meta consensus (or to ask a new meta question about revising the policy) when they're voting-to-close incorrectly. | |
| Jul 18, 2023 at 6:58 | history | asked | Niklas Rosencrantz | CC BY-SA 4.0 |