Timeline for Why close an answered question?
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| Mar 16, 2014 at 11:40 | comment | added | Braiam | That you want to see how many ways you can cook an egg? helpful doesn't mean that it is a good fit for AU, nor the Q&A format (cooking.SE would close it as too broad). Also, that a question is closed makes it eligible to deletion, if it was so bad that it got closed, it's probably too bad for the site itself and needs to be deleted. | |
| Mar 16, 2014 at 11:39 | comment | added | Braiam | @EliahKagan no, you got me wrong, the GUI is picking the relevant parts at the moment of closing a question, not me "Questions that may need closing/reopening appear in these queues", not answers. There has been cases where highly popular and upvoted questions gets closed since they don't fit the Q&A format those cases the path to closure and deletion is available to the community. I interpret the GUI that way because I see that we think that "every byte of data" is sacred, when is not. | |
| Mar 16, 2014 at 3:49 | comment | added | Eliah Kagan | The close queue GUI didn't have to be designed to tell us how many answers a question has, but it was. It didn't have to be designed to tell us how many votes the question has, but it was. (SE developers could've left out the "post" link too...) I think you are picking and choosing the parts of the GUI that support your philosophy of how the site should be used, and disregarding the others. Note that I am not suggesting we should usually be reluctant to close questions just because they have answers or are highly voted. Instead, I'm saying that information is sometimes relevant. | |
| Mar 16, 2014 at 3:44 | comment | added | Braiam | @EliahKagan you are discussing the value of answers in the face of closure, and the GUI (review queue) is designed with that in mind. Remember that most upvoted stuff in all SE, has been programmatically closed and deleted if it doesn't fit the Q&A format or the on topic parameters. That's how the system works, and that's how I plan to use it. | |
| Mar 16, 2014 at 3:32 | comment | added | Eliah Kagan | I don't know what you're asking. This meta answer of yours isn't specific to the specific to that question, and neither is my comment above. BTW, votes are also sometimes relevant, which is perhaps why votes on a question are shown to us in the close queue. We should trust our own analyses, but we should remain aware of what other community members think, and an important way people express their evaluation of a question is by voting. (And when it comes to deletion, answers and votes are very important.) | |
| Mar 16, 2014 at 1:41 | comment | added | Braiam | @EliahKagan again, how is that an answer? | |
| Mar 16, 2014 at 1:04 | comment | added | Eliah Kagan | Answers are not irrelevant to closing. There's a reason the close queue tells us how many answers have been posted! Often we know if a question should be closed, without seeing the answers. Sometimes we do not. | |
| Mar 15, 2014 at 19:48 | history | edited | Braiam | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 15, 2014 at 19:33 | history | answered | Braiam | CC BY-SA 3.0 |