Timeline for A more general reason for closing off-topic questions?
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| Mar 16, 2017 at 16:41 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://meta.matheducators.stackexchange.com/ with https://matheducators.meta.stackexchange.com/
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| Jun 4, 2015 at 13:30 | vote | accept | Joonas Ilmavirta | ||
| Jun 3, 2015 at 14:22 | answer | added | quidMod | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jun 3, 2015 at 9:38 | comment | added | Benjamin Dickman | I think it would suffice to close with Other and paste something generic: This question appears not to fit with MESE guidelines as outlined in the Help Center's Asking page here. | |
| Jun 2, 2015 at 10:20 | history | edited | Joonas Ilmavirta | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 2, 2015 at 10:13 | comment | added | Joonas Ilmavirta | @quid, you are right, there is no proper difference between giving a reason in comments and using the "other" reason. I'll edit. In my experience people (including myself) are often lazy and tend to select a default reason instead of writing a custom one. If there is no general reason for closing off-topic questions, this gives confusing signals to the askers. | |
| Jun 2, 2015 at 9:46 | comment | added | quid Mod | I will write something more detailed latter. Historically, it was "by accident" we do not have this (as I misunderstood the interface when changing). However, I then though about it and meanwhile I am quite convinced that having no general reason is better, for a small site at least. More specifically, I do not see how "I think it's better to have more general default closure reasons and to specify them with comments" is even different from using "other", using "other" one just writes the comment one would write anyway in the close-dialog . Could you please explain the difference you see? | |
| Jun 2, 2015 at 7:55 | history | asked | Joonas Ilmavirta | CC BY-SA 3.0 |