Timeline for Shouldn't we stop closing questions instantly as Off-Topic if we see the words "mint", "debian", etc.?
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| Oct 27, 2017 at 22:24 | history | edited | Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 27, 2017 at 22:18 | comment | added | Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy | @EliahKagan I made an edit to my answer. By this point I really don't understand why you can't see that I agree with your post, just look at it from slightly different perspective, but I'll take the blame that I don't communicate well. | |
| Oct 27, 2017 at 22:12 | history | edited | Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 27, 2017 at 21:48 | comment | added | Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy |
@EliahKagan You say we should allow questions about non-Ubuntu distros . No, quite the contrary. If question is really Mint-specific - then close it. By contrast, "[i]n cases such as traversing directory tree, shell scripting, renaming files, moving files, and other things which have no relation to the underlying workings of the operating system". Again, point I was making is that mention of words "Mint" or "Debian" alone doesn't mean question is off-topic. And I entirely agree that question where OP is Ubuntu and only mentions Mint are on topic.
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| Oct 27, 2017 at 21:36 | comment | added | Eliah Kagan | It seems to me that this answer is entirely about questions where an OP is not using Ubuntu. But the meta question here is about questions where the OP is using Ubuntu. In this answer, you advocate a policy that is contrary to existing strong consensus. You say we should allow questions about non-Ubuntu distros so long as we think they're are likely to apply to Ubuntu. But this question is about the problem that questions that are unambiguously on-topic under our existing consensus are being wrongly closed; this answer doesn't address that at all. | |
| Oct 27, 2017 at 21:30 | comment | added | Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy |
I was answering exactly what is stated in the first sentence of the question: questions getting closed as Off Topic, just because a question contains the word "Mint" or "Debian". Point I was making is that closing question depends on whether it's specific to the mentioned "other" OS or not, not on the fact that's mentioned. I think you've misinterpreted my answer. My advice is simple - people should actually read the questions and use discretion instead of just seeing words "Mint" and go "close all the things!". Does that clarify ?
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| Oct 27, 2017 at 21:20 | comment | added | Eliah Kagan | What question is this answering? As I mentioned there, this is about questions that are about Ubuntu but mention another OS. Suppose someone uses Ubuntu and another OS, and the other OS's behavior can't happen on Ubuntu, but the question is about what to do in Ubuntu. The question is on-topic. Yet ironically the advice you've given here would actually say to close it. Since I know you don't want that, I'm pretty sure you've misinterpreted this question. | |
| Oct 27, 2017 at 18:51 | history | answered | Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |