Timeline for Are questions not directly related to programming (but might concern programmers) on-topic?
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| Sep 22, 2010 at 16:23 | comment | added | Gelatin | @Chinmay Kanchi: Or more specific like "your question includes the phrase "for programmers", please describe what makes it for programmers instead." | |
| Sep 22, 2010 at 2:19 | comment | added | Chinmay Kanchi | A warning, like the "The question you're asking appears subjective and is likely to be closed" on SO is probably ideal. Something like "the question you are asking seems to be off-topic and is likely to be closed". | |
| Sep 22, 2010 at 1:20 | comment | added | Gelatin | @Chinmay Kanchi: Maybe as a guideline then. The automation would just be a warning in any case. | |
| Sep 22, 2010 at 0:19 | comment | added | Chinmay Kanchi | I don't think it's big enough of a problem to require an automated solution. Besides, these kinds of things are always problematic. It's like removing goto from a language; there's always that one corner case that can't be solved reasonably without it ;) | |
| Sep 21, 2010 at 22:22 | comment | added | Gelatin | @bigown: If it's misused, it will at least be more obvious that the question is off-topic. | |
| Sep 21, 2010 at 22:21 | history | edited | Gelatin | CC BY-SA 2.5 | edited body; deleted 2 characters in body |
| Sep 21, 2010 at 22:16 | comment | added | user8 | I like this idea: if a question doesn't provide a reason why it's relevant, it's a pretty good reason to close as not a real question much in the same manner we close questions that possibly relate to programming but don't define what it is the author is looking to achieve on Stack Overflow. | |
| Sep 21, 2010 at 22:13 | comment | added | AArteDoCodigo.com.br - Maniero | It could be done but I presume it doesn't solve the main problem. Users will find out a way to use this badly. The idea is good to get better question text. | |
| Sep 21, 2010 at 22:06 | history | edited | Gelatin | CC BY-SA 2.5 | added 76 characters in body |
| Sep 21, 2010 at 21:57 | history | answered | Gelatin | CC BY-SA 2.5 |