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| Feb 14, 2012 at 12:38 | comment | added | Rarst Mod | @Chip whatever is about WP (see "common sense" and "rule of a thumb" parts of answer) and not forbidden is allowed. Of course it doesn't mean that everything that fits such is great question - that is what flags like "too localized" and "not constructive" are for. | |
| Feb 13, 2012 at 15:08 | comment | added | Chip Bennett | To be fair: nothing is being heavily voted, period. That's part of the problem. (And reading through that FAQ-related question, I don't see much clarification there, either, regarding WordPress end-user features being in or out of scope.) | |
| Feb 13, 2012 at 14:46 | comment | added | Rarst Mod | @Chip scope thread - What should our FAQ contain?. Please put that you would like users to be written in if they are under my post there. I will keep an eye on this thread and how voting votes for more items that we might need to specify in FAQ, but so far I don't see any worthwhile and heavily up/down voted. | |
| Feb 13, 2012 at 14:42 | comment | added | Chip Bennett | I don't have a preference either way; I'm simply trying to follow the rules/scope as written. I came after the Beta period, and was not privy to what transpired then. Thus, I can only go by what is written in the FAQ. Nobody here is screaming, "let's kick out end users!". That's another straw man. If anything, I'm screaming, "let's clarify the FAQ, and then adhere to it". If end-user questions are in-scope, then clarify the scope accordingly. | |
| Feb 13, 2012 at 14:29 | comment | added | Rarst Mod | @Chip community made that call by not screaming "let's kick out end users!" when FAQ was written. Right now FAQ does not mean that because I did not write it to mean that. I am not against discussing end-user questions (I am strongly against excluding them), but please don't try to bend current letter of FAQ to mean that not explicitly mentioned means forbidden. It does not. | |
| Feb 13, 2012 at 14:22 | comment | added | Chip Bennett | who makes that call? It seems we only have three people even caring enough to participate in this discussion. While such a sample is clearly too small to use as a basis for community-consensus decision-making, I note that two out of three people disagree with the assertion that all WordPress-related questions are within our scope. | |
| Feb 13, 2012 at 14:19 | comment | added | Rarst Mod | @Chip the scope does not intend to make such differentiation. Scope says for whom this site is first. I repeat - that does not mean that any other kind of a user is forbidden from participating. This is stack about WordPress. Not development. Not administration. Just about WordPress. | |
| Feb 13, 2012 at 13:48 | comment | added | Chip Bennett | yes, if that's the case, then I think the FAQ does need to be updated. If our scope is effectively going to be your rule of Thumb, then the FAQ should state that, explicitly. If our scope is intended to differentiate between "users with more capabilities that deal with whole site, as opposed to users with very restricted roles", then we need to clarify what, exactly, that means. In fact: understanding that differentiation is exactly the purpose of this question. | |
| Feb 12, 2012 at 18:42 | comment | added | Rarst Mod | @Chip I think I already commented somewhere that I don't get where idea that users are excluded comes from. In FAQ I emphasized administrators (as in users with more capabilities that deal with whole site, as opposed to users with very restricted roles) but that absolutely doesn't imply any other kind of user is not welcomed to ask WordPress question here. If you want FAQ edited to precisely reflect that - that can be done. | |
| Feb 12, 2012 at 18:35 | comment | added | Chip Bennett | "User hate" is a straw man. There is no "user hate". If we want to answer "user" questions, that's completely fine. Just update the FAQ/Scope accordingly. On the other hand: if user-support questions are out of scope, then why not direct them to the official WPORG support forums? Isn't that better than closing the question without pointing the user somewhere to ask the question? | |
| Feb 12, 2012 at 15:02 | history | answered | RarstMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |