Timeline for closed as not a real question?
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| Jan 19, 2013 at 0:55 | comment | added | krazykat1980 | @ChipBennett I agree, closure isn't the best way... it frustrates newbies, and keeps them from getting an answer they may need quickly... they can get an answer and then the question could be closed until edited or something... maybe if editing were worth more rep points (or there weren't badges for close votes or using all votes) maybe more people would edit instead of closing... only 2 points for spending possibly 30 minutes or more editing someone elses question? Seriously! Thanks, Chip... at least you understood the purpose of this post better than most... | |
| Jan 18, 2013 at 13:21 | comment | added | Chip Bennett | One of the more frustrating things that I notice is that, even when WPSE members post comments explaining why a question is not written well enough, or high-enough quality, whether the question is closed or not, the OP never comes back to try to fix the question. As has been said: a closed question is not the end of the world; it often just means that the question needs to be improved. (Now, would I have chosen question closure as the mechanism for improving questions? Probably not. But we work with the conventions that apply network-wide.) | |
| Jan 18, 2013 at 13:18 | comment | added | Chip Bennett | "Sometimes questions HAVE to be vague though..." - bear in mind that SE is a question and answer site, designed to solicit specific answers to specific questions. On any Se network site, the best thing you can do is to make questions as specific/detailed as possible. If the quality of the question is thus high enough, even if the question is off-topic on one site, it can more-easily be migrated to a more-appropriate site, and ultimately receive answers. | |
| Jan 18, 2013 at 1:28 | comment | added | krazykat1980 | I know it's off topic... but it is now clear.... I think it should be reopened then closed as off topic and moved to stack overflow in the facebook section... sigh | |
| Jan 18, 2013 at 0:44 | comment | added | Rarst Mod | @krazykat1980 You don't have to prove anything to me personally. There are other moderators as well as users with enough reputation can vote to re-open. The question has to be able to understood by WordPress developer. How Facebook authorization works has nothing to do with WordPress, which is precisely why the question is struggling in first place. It is in realm of entirely unrelated thing in WordPress context, not WordPress-specific. | |
| Jan 18, 2013 at 0:29 | comment | added | krazykat1980 |
personally I don't feel your edit sufficiently clarifies it. You might have experience with this topic (Facebook authorization), someone else might not. Doesn't the same go for any aspect of programming or really anything in life? I didn't know questions had to be able to be understood by a layperson...
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| Jan 18, 2013 at 0:25 | comment | added | krazykat1980 | Now I'M getting confused... I think it's completely clear (although possibly needs to go to SO)... how it relates to wordpress? they are trying to post a wordpress post onto facebook. And it also asks for ways other than a plugin to do the task as well. This isn't fair! You closed it instead of editing it, and now I, or the original poster, or some other good Samaritan has to try to figure out what would be acceptable to you. I feel sorry for the guy since he won't get an answer... but I can't waste any more of MY time trying to fix something that doesn't meet 1 or 2 peoples criteria | |
| Jan 18, 2013 at 0:06 | comment | added | Rarst Mod | @krazykat1980 personally I don't feel your edit sufficiently clarifies it. You might have experience with this topic (Facebook authorization), someone else might not. Also wording it as "is there plugin" doesn't help the case since plugin recommendations are off topic. If you want to continue improving try to focus on clearly explaining Facebook aspect of it and how it relates to WordPress. | |
| Jan 17, 2013 at 22:15 | comment | added | krazykat1980 | I edited it, in 2 minutes... hopefully my ADHD brain was able to clarify (and bring onto topic) enough that it can be reopened and the poor guy can get an answer to his question | |
| Jan 17, 2013 at 21:58 | comment | added | krazykat1980 | I know, make an SE for the newbies!!! Where you move all the questions that are closed for 'not a real question' where maybe they can get an answer from the few of us that are good at figuring out what they mean... then all those good questions that a million people want the answer to can still be found... and even if we don't feel confident editing their question because we aren't 100% clear on what they are asking we can add comments to help them make their question better. If it gets a valid answer or edited move it back... then we aren't punishing them by refusing help WHEN they need it! | |
| Jan 17, 2013 at 21:50 | comment | added | krazykat1980 | and searching for answers on SO,I've often found my answer in 'closed as unanswerable' questions following a link from google, and even if the question could have been easier to understand, it kept me from having to post a question and wait 2 days for an answer when I was working on a time sensitive project... I just feel that it doesn't work the way it should, and also most newbies won't come back to edit their question... why should they? They get slammed down with no real explanation of why, and they need an answer NOW! They don't feel like jumping through hoops first... | |
| Jan 17, 2013 at 21:45 | comment | added | krazykat1980 | I just hate the 'not a real question, can't reasonably be answered' thing because it's not very helpful! Maybe your FAQ is better than SO... but I had a question closed as unanswerable over there after it had a great, clear answer proving it COULD be answered in the form it's in, and the FAQ gave me no clue how to fix my question... turned out I was too 'chatty' in describing my problem, and someone was nice enough to edit it for me, as my ADHD brain couldn't figure out how to explain the question without explaining in depth... | |
| Jan 17, 2013 at 21:40 | comment | added | krazykat1980 | Sometimes questions HAVE to be vague though... his question was about ANY way to solve the problem - a plugin for wordpress, changing a plugin, doing it with the api... when you're at your wits end with a problem you tend to go vague because you'll accept ANY answer that solves the problem... and I agree they let their frustration show a little too much in their comments, but in a way I don't blame them... I get frustrated sometimes trying to get a simple answer on these sites too | |
| Jan 17, 2013 at 11:22 | history | answered | RarstMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |