Timeline for Please do not delete closed questions with many views and many upvotes
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| Jun 12, 2020 at 14:35 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| May 25, 2014 at 15:34 | comment | added | Braiam | @Stabledog rules are in place for a good motive. Try to look for a list question elsewhere in SE, I bet that if you find some, they are closed. | |
| May 21, 2014 at 2:31 | comment | added | Stabledog | It's the Stack Exchange purity police who need policing, not these questions. There's nothing wrong with "list" questions -- what happens is that they become popular because the discussions surrounding them are informative, with perspectives supplied by experienced and intelligent users. The culture of SE attracts the right people, and those questions attract good content. What's kooky is the rules that are incoherent relative to the value of the questions they're policing. I think of this as "the SE schizophrenia". Would love to see a drug for that. | |
| May 19, 2014 at 14:09 | comment | added | Seth Mod | @Braiam I didn't see anyone say that, all we said was if it has that many views and that many upvotes someone must be interested in looking at it. It isn't actively harming the site and if people are looking at it, why remove it? They are great resources. | |
| May 19, 2014 at 13:16 | comment | added | Braiam | List of software will always exist in internet. There's not "list" hard to find.. | |
| May 19, 2014 at 13:15 | history | edited | Braiam | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 19, 2014 at 13:03 | history | edited | Braiam | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 19, 2014 at 13:02 | comment | added | Braiam | @Seth the real problem I see it in the title "views and votes" = quality. | |
| May 19, 2014 at 12:55 | comment | added | Braiam | Traffic like this is poisonous. List of X will always be popular. This is not excuse to leave them in the site. Views is not the most important thing for StackExchange, if it was it would be called YahooAnswers, where doesn't matter the quality of whatever is called. | |
| May 19, 2014 at 10:30 | comment | added | Flimm | It's not our job to figure out how to make Stack Exchange profitable. We do want to remain "pure". There are loads of ways to get traffic to this site, but we are only interested in the useful Ubuntu ones. | |
| May 19, 2014 at 6:13 | vote | accept | Takkat | ||
| May 18, 2014 at 20:17 | history | edited | fossfreedomMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 18, 2014 at 20:01 | comment | added | Seth Mod | Most of them are still quite good, e.g. the DE one, the IDE one, the drive partition one, etc. A few of them need some clean up though, the music player one for example. So yeah, I agree with this answer. These are some of our top questions, whether we like it or not, they are still useful and we should maintain them. None of them are useless, garbage or harmful yet. Meanwhile there are all sorts of bugs and abandoned questions (just to name a few) that need much more urgent attention. Arguing over these is just a useless distraction from the real problem. | |
| May 18, 2014 at 19:53 | history | answered | fossfreedomMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |