Timeline for Are we abusing "Request for learning materials" as a reason to close?
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| Feb 5, 2018 at 17:15 | comment | added | Dessa Simpson | s/probably shouldn't/shouldn't/ | |
| Jan 26, 2018 at 17:58 | comment | added | terdon Mod | @Wildcard now that Tiny Giant reminded me, I did check on a site where I don't have close vote privileges and no, I couldn't use a custom value. Even so, in such cases, a custom mod flag would probably be best. My main problem with mis-using the close reasons is that they give wrong information to posters and don't help them understand our rules. | |
| Jan 26, 2018 at 17:47 | comment | added | Tiny Giant | @Wildcard prior to having the vote to close privilege, the custom close reason is just "Blatantly off-topic" in the flag dialog (which becomes the close dialog when you get the privilege). | |
| Jan 23, 2018 at 1:24 | comment | added | terdon Mod | @Wildcard I don't think so, but I'll check. | |
| Jan 23, 2018 at 1:23 | comment | added | Wildcard | Incidentally, is there a reputation threshold below which it's impossible to write custom close reasons? If there is, I'm past it by now, but I seem to recall at one time being able to vote to close but unable to write a custom reason. | |
| Jan 21, 2018 at 16:32 | history | edited | terdonMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 4 characters in body |
| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:37 | history | edited | CommunityBot | replaced http://unix.stackexchange.com/ with https://unix.stackexchange.com/ | |
| Apr 9, 2016 at 10:03 | history | edited | terdonMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 2 characters in body |
| Apr 4, 2016 at 9:29 | history | edited | terdonMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 1 character in body |
| Feb 17, 2016 at 22:01 | vote | accept | garethTheRed | ||
| Feb 17, 2016 at 14:10 | comment | added | terdon Mod | @Gilles yes, that could make sense. As long as it's not closed as a request for learning materials, I have no objection to its being closed. | |
| Feb 16, 2016 at 23:21 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | I voted to close Please explain “kobject” because it's off-topic, not because it's asking for learning materials (which it isn't). A kobject is an internal concept in the Linux kernel which is of interest only to programmers. This question belongs on Stack Overflow (where it might be killed off, not because it's off-topic, but because it's poorly researched, but that isn't a debate for this meta). | |
| Feb 16, 2016 at 22:33 | comment | added | Faheem Mitha | Excellent summary of the issues. Clear and concise. A clear explanation of why a question was closed is indeed most important. However, it doesn't help that the close question template is somewhat limited. It really should be much more flexible. Also, the help should be clearer about what kind of questions are allowed. | |
| Feb 16, 2016 at 17:25 | history | edited | terdonMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 | deleted 116 characters in body |
| Feb 16, 2016 at 16:34 | history | answered | terdonMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |