Timeline for Are questions that ask whether or not there exists a list a list question in and on themselves?
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| Sep 23, 2013 at 13:43 | comment | added | phantom42 | "Phantom42's comment is speculation as to why people voted a certain way." Correct. I, myself, tend to only downvote if the question is poorly researched or unclear. Some people downvote for other reasons. I was just trying to offer advice as to why you might have been receiving downvotes since there had been no feedback thus far aside from the close votes. | |
| Sep 18, 2013 at 23:57 | comment | added | Beofett | Phantom42's comment is speculation as to why people voted a certain way. There are no rules about how people should vote; such rules would be unenforceable. Instead, there are guidelines. There are, however, rules about when questions should be closed (or at least we try to define such rules). They are two separate concepts, and it can be confusing, but my answer assumes that readers have a basic familiarity with those concepts. If you don't have that background understanding, I can see how it would be confusing, but those topics are beyond the scope of this particular question. | |
| Sep 18, 2013 at 23:56 | comment | added | Beofett | Again, if you want to make specific suggestions... instead of general complaints based on out-of-context or partial reading. I'll say it again, as simply as I can put it: your question was uninteresting, so I downvoted it. It is vague and based on a premise that you seem to be mistaken about (that your examples are real-world "predictions", even though neither actually happened), and therefore should be closed. | |
| Sep 18, 2013 at 21:09 | comment | added | James Tomasino | I have made several edits based on feedback I've gotten from other users in attempt to make the question less vague and more answerable. There were also comments from users saying the exact opposite as you: "Downvotes are possibly due to asking for a list or for people to essentially create one. List-questions are off-topic here. – phantom42" My point in my responses to your comments has been that you are not being clear though you may think you are, which in effect is the same comment you had on my original question. | |
| Sep 18, 2013 at 20:57 | comment | added | Beofett | @JamesTomasino Immediately following that statement, I give an example of a "good" question, then point out where your question falls short, and then said "For that reason, I would (and did) downvote the question." I then address the topic of closing separately. The fact that I said it is not useful, and that, as I pointed out earlier, downvoting indicates a question is not useful/helpful/well researched, I believe it is pretty clear what I am saying. If you have a specific suggestion for how to clarify it, I'm willing to listen, but I'm just not seeing your points. | |
| Sep 18, 2013 at 20:47 | comment | added | James Tomasino | Your first two paragraphs are answering a question about whether the question should be closed as it relates to the no-lists policy. You then immediately commented, "That being said, I think a question asking for a resource that might contain a list is not really that useful, unless the resource in question would be really popular/widely used." This reads as a comment on the above part. If you are trying to comment on both the closing and the downvoting as distinct entities, your method isn't supporting this. They read as one and the same. | |
| Sep 18, 2013 at 17:12 | comment | added | Beofett | @JamesTomasino Please read my answer again. At no point did I say such questions "should only be allowed if it has wide and popular appeal". As I mentioned in the comment on your question, you are conflating downvotes and closure. Your question doesn't have wide and popular appeal, therefore I downvoted. Your question is of vague scope, it is unclear what you are asking for, and the fact that your examples don't appear to support your premise indicates that the question may be flawed, so for those reasons, I support it being on hold. There are two separate sets of issues here. | |
| Sep 18, 2013 at 16:53 | comment | added | James Tomasino | I understand and respect a number of points you made in your post, but the idea that a question looking for a resource that is not easily identified by a simple search should only be allowed if it has wide and popular appeal is utterly ridiculous. The arbiter of that scope would be have to choose these questions based on pure opinion, even if such a choice was valid. Does a niche audience preempt any other content on this site from being shared? This is a forum for geeks where the niche is the norm! | |
| Sep 16, 2013 at 13:49 | history | answered | Beofett | CC BY-SA 3.0 |