Timeline for Isn't the first step to post a comment rather than vote to close?
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| May 22, 2013 at 18:35 | comment | added | Bruno Pereira Mod | Bugs are off-topic for the site btw. From my point of view you just dont really understand how this site works, that is why you give importance to closed posts, else you would not, sorry. | |
| May 22, 2013 at 16:25 | comment | added | coteyr | "...the site help will be provided..." See that's what I mean. You didn't phrase your question correctly so were not going to answer it. Go away. Shoo Shoo, your not worthy of knowing my knowledge. Pfft, are you still here? Can't you it from their perspective? Close might be the correct option from our perspective but how are we ever going to get past bug #1 if when someone asks a question we screem "NUB" and hide. I don't hae the perfect answer, but try looking at it from their side. | |
| May 22, 2013 at 13:59 | comment | added | Bruno Pereira Mod | ...once you have the needed information or the OP actually knows how to use the site help will be provided, Ask Ubuntu is not a forum shaped site, learn how to use it. | |
| May 22, 2013 at 13:58 | comment | added | Bruno Pereira Mod | Help does not come without information supplied, a simple affirmation is not a help request. Look, we get a lot of questions where the OP will not supply the needed information to solve the issue, instead of spending several days and hours trying to squeeze it from them we should focus on making sure we can help users that can and want to be helped, if I close a question with the reason "please supply more information about x and y" how is that not prying? Comments are allowed on closed questions, use them and abuse them... | |
| May 22, 2013 at 13:48 | comment | added | coteyr | "I got mugged, solve it" -- actually that happens a lot. Doesn't get the crime solved but the police still have to hand hold a bit. And again I am not talking about "right" from our perspective, I am saying look at it from both sides before just closing a question. Sometimes helping means prying for information. "Close" is just [perceived] final. The Map Hut example: Bob could have said "Try asking your question this way" instead of "Go away, not worth my time". | |
| May 22, 2013 at 13:41 | comment | added | Bruno Pereira Mod | @coteyr we are working, for free, helping hundreds of users per day, there are some rules to use the site, they are written on the FAQ... We are actually trying to fix things all the time and make the site better. If there is need for more information or a question lacks it totally then why should it stay on the site? If get mugged on the street I can't just run in to a police station saying "I got mugged, solve it", there will be a battalion of questions to be answered before anything is done, not because the police officers don't care, they just need to know more information... Simple | |
| May 22, 2013 at 10:38 | comment | added | coteyr | People get closed posts wrong. We all perceive what we perceive. To one one struggling with their computer, worried about their email, and generally stressed out; "Closed" means "your not important enough to bother to try to help". Specially if English isn't their first language. I mean think of driving around list for 30 mins and finally pulling over to ask for directions at Bob's Map Hut, only to be told, "You didn't phrase your request correctly so were not going to give you directions." Granted, that's not what happens from our perspective, but from theirs.... I'd be pissed. | |
| Feb 26, 2013 at 11:30 | comment | added | don.joey | @Aditya I agree. The metaphor of closuse is one of the weakest spots of the SE user interface. | |
| Feb 26, 2013 at 11:27 | comment | added | Aditya | People get closed posts wrong. Nothing can summarize the situation better. I actually understood that closing the question is a temporary means of improving the post (if it could be) - I understood the true meaning of closing when @ManishEarth asked the meaning of closing the question and answering it in the Moderator Election Chat Room. Although, we keep mentioning to the OP to flag it for moderators if they think it shouldn't be closed - I think this needs to be advertised a bit better while closing. True meaning of closing should accompany every closure. | |
| Feb 26, 2013 at 11:25 | comment | added | Aditya | @Private: Everyone :-) | |
| Feb 26, 2013 at 11:24 | comment | added | don.joey | People get closed posts wrong. people = me? :) | |
| Feb 26, 2013 at 10:45 | history | answered | Bruno PereiraMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |