The problem with those questions is that they tend not only to generate polls about the "most popular resource" but also "link-only answers" that we hate too much. For example:
- What GIMP tutorials are available? (closed and in process of being deleted): the only answer that apart of not having a link, is the only which removing the link we still get a bit of information, yet without the name of the book I get no information about how to use GIMP.
- https://askubuntu.com/q/163757/169736: The OP ask for another tutorial since the one he's following "doesn't work". Instead of focusing in diagnosing why it doesn't work, the answer instead provide a link to a translated tutorial. If we remove the request for a tutorial on the question, we get a unclear question, and the answer only value aspect is starting pulseaudio with verbose options, but wouldn't help since PA is already started.
- How to learn vim on a high level? (closed and in process of being deleted): this is more useful than the GIMP one... but still is just many vague tips about what to do (open vim-tutor), what to see (lots of videos) or what read (ALL the links to SO and Programmers.SE are dead). The only valuable tip is
vim-tutorand lots of "opinionated tips" like changing CapsLock-Esc (btw, I use caps as much as escape), etc.
There are many more, but those are exhibits that normally, questions asking "where do I start" do not fit the QA format and fair poorly in this site as they don't tend to generate quality answers (and I'm not talking about "upvotes" but face value).
