Timeline for What happened to "blatantly off-topic"?
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| Oct 23, 2017 at 19:40 | comment | added | Eliah Kagan | @pomsky Personally I don't think "blatantly off-topic" inherently violates the "be nice" rule, though of course it's possible to use that phrase and be mean at the same time. (I'm replying here in case Robert Cartaino wants to disagree, but I won't take anyone's silence as confirmation that I'm right.) I think the problem is instead that it is not very helpful. Though that question is off-topic in a blatant way, that's not what's important. What's important is that it's not about Ubuntu. A question that's about Debian instead of Ubuntu is just as off-topic, even if less blatantly so. | |
| Oct 23, 2017 at 19:32 | comment | added | pomsky | @EliahKagan Yes, sorry for the confusion, wrong choice of words! I have edited it. I didn't raise a custom flag for a moderator to review. I just added a custom reason (viz. "blatantly off-topic") for closing an off-topic (as per my judgement) question. I was wondering whether a comment like that is now considered against the "be nice" policy and if we should stop using that kinda comments directed to especially new users. | |
| Oct 23, 2017 at 19:23 | comment | added | Eliah Kagan | Although the OP here described what they did as "manually flagging," it appears they picked the Other option in the Off-topic dialog and did not raise a custom moderator intervention flag. (One reason I believe this to be the case is that an automatic-looking "voting to close" comment was posted.) | |
| Oct 23, 2017 at 17:27 | history | edited | Robert Cartaino | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 23, 2017 at 17:21 | history | answered | Robert Cartaino | CC BY-SA 3.0 |