Timeline for Are we too fast in closing questions as unclear?
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| Mar 20, 2019 at 23:20 | comment | added | Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy | The close privilege decription mentions questions closure for sufficient similarity, closure for lack of clarity, or closure for being off-topic. The off-topic questions can be answered before they're closed and potentially migrated to other sites (along with your answer), or they could be made applicable to Ubuntu and then answered, but technically there's no requirement to answer those. There's no prohibition that you shouldn't answer any questions. Exception is of course questions about doing something illegal. | |
| Mar 20, 2019 at 9:26 | comment | added | Kulfy | "Question closure means that the question shouldn't be answered": Shouldn't? I think you meant "can't". "The OP received constructive feedback on how to improve the question far before it was even closed": Sometimes that far is just few hours may be minutes. PS: I ran out of limit while posting the comment. That's why I split that into three | |
| Mar 20, 2019 at 9:25 | comment | added | Kulfy | "Question closure means that the question shouldn't be answered": Shouldn't? I think you meant "can't". "The OP received constructive feedback on how to improve the question far": Sometimes that far is just few hours may be minutes.You can't guarantee a question to be duplicate or off-topic if it's unclear. Secondly, "it's important to be patient and accept that it might take some time to get an answer.: But what if question is closed before getting an answer. This statement IMHO contradicts with the intention of the question. | |
| Mar 20, 2019 at 9:25 | comment | added | Kulfy | You can't guarantee a question to be duplicate or off-topic if it's unclear. Secondly, "it's important to be patient and accept that it might take some time to get an answer.: But what if question is closed before getting an answer. This statement IMHO contradicts with the intention of the question. | |
| Mar 20, 2019 at 7:37 | comment | added | Jacob Vlijm | "If a question is not a good fit for the site, it should be closed to both indicate that it is off-topic or a duplicate and to prevent it from being answered." The (this) question is about unclear, not about dupes or off-topic ones. "a question is not a good fit for the site" - You don't know yet, since the question isn't fully clear. Work with OP to clarify if that is applicable. As said, a Q is easier closed than reopened. If I have a real problem NOW, It is frustrating to see and wait if my Q gets reopened, or maybe not. | |
| Mar 20, 2019 at 2:54 | history | answered | Picachieu | CC BY-SA 4.0 |