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I need to add another answer since my point in the first answer is veering out of control:

These questions are most of the time throughly abused and overused as crap-dump for anything. For example, if I ask for a "how the heck do you get vlc to play a movie" (an actual question on the site) people thinks that I want a list of video players. Why? I mean both are different questions from moon to earth. How can someone join dots between "VLC doesn't work" and "list of video players"? The same happens with any other very specific set of restrictions software recommendations. To quote Robert Carantino answer in SR:

Be very wary of closing down very specific use cases and treating (for example) "every question about photo editors" like your trying to build a general encyclopedia of software reviews that will work for everyone — That is NOT what we are here for.

 

Ideally, this site is going to be filled with long-tailed, specific problem statements where the "solutions" are highly custom-tailored to the original author specifically. And ideally, these questions should be specific enough, that true duplicates should be somewhat rare.

That's a good software recommendation. What you put as examples are "list of X" and they are poisonous. jrg has told us that the only way to get them deleted is if we find a place for them; well, they have place.

I need to add another answer since my point in the first answer is veering out of control:

These questions are most of the time throughly abused and overused as crap-dump for anything. For example, if I ask for a "how the heck do you get vlc to play a movie" (an actual question on the site) people thinks that I want a list of video players. Why? I mean both are different questions from moon to earth. How can someone join dots between "VLC doesn't work" and "list of video players"? The same happens with any other very specific set of restrictions software recommendations. To quote Robert Carantino answer in SR:

Be very wary of closing down very specific use cases and treating (for example) "every question about photo editors" like your trying to build a general encyclopedia of software reviews that will work for everyone — That is NOT what we are here for.

Ideally, this site is going to be filled with long-tailed, specific problem statements where the "solutions" are highly custom-tailored to the original author specifically. And ideally, these questions should be specific enough, that true duplicates should be somewhat rare.

That's a good software recommendation. What you put as examples are "list of X" and they are poisonous. jrg has told us that the only way to get them deleted is if we find a place for them; well, they have place.

I need to add another answer since my point in the first answer is veering out of control:

These questions are most of the time throughly abused and overused as crap-dump for anything. For example, if I ask for a "how the heck do you get vlc to play a movie" (an actual question on the site) people thinks that I want a list of video players. Why? I mean both are different questions from moon to earth. How can someone join dots between "VLC doesn't work" and "list of video players"? The same happens with any other very specific set of restrictions software recommendations. To quote Robert Carantino answer in SR:

Be very wary of closing down very specific use cases and treating (for example) "every question about photo editors" like your trying to build a general encyclopedia of software reviews that will work for everyone — That is NOT what we are here for.

Ideally, this site is going to be filled with long-tailed, specific problem statements where the "solutions" are highly custom-tailored to the original author specifically. And ideally, these questions should be specific enough, that true duplicates should be somewhat rare.

That's a good software recommendation. What you put as examples are "list of X" and they are poisonous. jrg has told us that the only way to get them deleted is if we find a place for them; well, they have place.

I need to add another answer since my point in the first answer is veering out of control:

These questions are most of the time throughly abused and overused as crap-dump for anything. For example, if I ask for a "how the heck do you get vlc to play a movie" (an actual question on the site) people thinks that I want a list of video players. Why? I mean both are different questions from moon to earth. How can someone join dots between "VLC doesn't work" and "list of video players"? The same happens with any other very specific set of restrictions software recommendations. To quote Robert Carantino answer in SR:

Be very wary of closing down very specific use cases and treating (for example) "every question about photo editors" like your trying to build a general encyclopedia of software reviews that will work for everyone — That is NOT what we are here for.

Ideally, this site is going to be filled with long-tailed, specific problem statements where the "solutions" are highly custom-tailored to the original author specifically. And ideally, these questions should be specific enough, that true duplicates should be somewhat rare.

That's a good software recommendation. What you put as examples are "list of X" and they are poisonous. jrg has told us that the only way to get them deleted is if we find a place for them; well, they have place.

I need to add another answer since my point in the first answer is veering out of control:

These questions are most of the time throughly abused and overused as crap-dump for anything. For example, if I ask for a "how the heck do you get vlc to play a movie" (an actual question on the site) people thinks that I want a list of video players. Why? I mean both are different questions from moon to earth. How can someone join dots between "VLC doesn't work" and "list of video players"? The same happens with any other very specific set of restrictions software recommendations. To quote Robert Carantino answer in SR:

Be very wary of closing down very specific use cases and treating (for example) "every question about photo editors" like your trying to build a general encyclopedia of software reviews that will work for everyone — That is NOT what we are here for.

Ideally, this site is going to be filled with long-tailed, specific problem statements where the "solutions" are highly custom-tailored to the original author specifically. And ideally, these questions should be specific enough, that true duplicates should be somewhat rare.

That's a good software recommendation. What you put as examples are "list of X" and they are poisonous. jrg has told us that the only way to get them deleted is if we find a place for them; well, they have place.

I need to add another answer since my point in the first answer is veering out of control:

These questions are most of the time throughly abused and overused as crap-dump for anything. For example, if I ask for a "how the heck do you get vlc to play a movie" (an actual question on the site) people thinks that I want a list of video players. Why? I mean both are different questions from moon to earth. How can someone join dots between "VLC doesn't work" and "list of video players"? The same happens with any other very specific set of restrictions software recommendations. To quote Robert Carantino answer in SR:

Be very wary of closing down very specific use cases and treating (for example) "every question about photo editors" like your trying to build a general encyclopedia of software reviews that will work for everyone — That is NOT what we are here for.

Ideally, this site is going to be filled with long-tailed, specific problem statements where the "solutions" are highly custom-tailored to the original author specifically. And ideally, these questions should be specific enough, that true duplicates should be somewhat rare.

That's a good software recommendation. What you put as examples are "list of X" and they are poisonous. jrg has told us that the only way to get them deleted is if we find a place for them; well, they have place.