Timeline for The real borderline for "Opinion based" in Software Engineering
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| Jun 13, 2014 at 6:09 | comment | added | miraculixx | "Answer: Obviously the one with fluffy kittens." - that's an example of a really bad answer and in no way qualifies the question. I can ask you a fact-seeking question and you can answer with the same nonsense answer. | |
| Feb 25, 2014 at 13:30 | comment | added | Aaronaught | @thermz: It's not strange, it's usually an X-Y problem like amon said. Most questions with "very narrowed scope" are arbitrarily narrowed because the author has already decided on a solution, implemented it partially, and gotten stuck on the rest, and just wants a jump start instead of having to backtrack. Sometimes there really are special circumstances (mostly legislative/regulatory requirements like PCI, SOX, that kind of thing) but those are rare relative to X-Y problems. | |
| Feb 23, 2014 at 13:17 | comment | added | thermz | When you say: "This makes any answer only useful for the asker, not for other people having a similar problem." It's strange but, sometimes the question has a very narrowed scope, and the answers cover very few specific cases... like the question I linked. | |
| Feb 22, 2014 at 12:17 | history | answered | amon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |