Timeline for Can answers be off topic? - How to deal with answers that address legal issues
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| Sep 30, 2017 at 19:11 | comment | added | SQB | @Shog9 thanks, I'll give it a shot. | |
| Aug 24, 2017 at 20:11 | comment | added | Shog9 | "Not an answer" means what it says - where folks usually get into the weeds is expecting a cookie-cutter response after reducing a complicated situation to a trite name. I doubt that I understand the problem on SFF well enough to say something useful there, but I suspect you're familiar enough with the problems on Stack Overflow to adapt the answer I provided for a very similar question over there. | |
| Aug 24, 2017 at 11:56 | comment | added | SQB | @Shog9 you seem to be of the opinion that NaA flags can and should be used on answers that do not actually answer or even address the question. If so, I agree; can I persuade you to weigh on the same matter over on Science Fiction & Fantasy? For instance, here or here? Current thinking seems to be that it's SE Policy to only flag posts that aren't attempts at answering — comments or new (unrelated) questions that happened to be posted through the answer box. | |
| Aug 10, 2017 at 22:37 | comment | added | Shog9 | If I could think of an effective edit, I would do that @Catija. Failing that, closing and explaining the problem should suffice: interpersonal.stackexchange.com/questions/1537/… | |
| Aug 10, 2017 at 22:25 | comment | added | Catija Mod | I don't know how to convince the OP of that question to actually add the details that they've alluded to in comments so that the answers don't make an assumption. I've been trying to decide whether it should be simply closed as too broad because of it but... | |
| Aug 10, 2017 at 22:22 | comment | added | Shog9 | I suspect that "don't do it" is only a valid answer here when the question is an X/Y problem (or not a real problem at all), @Catija. Your pregnancy question is a good example of this: there are a ton of situations where it is absolutely essential not only that the question be asked but that it be asked in a way that'll be answered honestly; whether the asker is facing one of those situations is another matter, and most (though not all) of the answers made an assumption one way or another (on the side of either X/Y or "you don't have this problem at all"). | |
| Aug 10, 2017 at 22:00 | comment | added | Catija Mod | I have been intending to have the "should we have the same rule as Parenting regarding questioning the premise" discussion here but I've been waiting for some good example questions/answers. I think the complication is drawing the line between truly questioning the premise and telling someone "Don't do it". | |
| Aug 10, 2017 at 20:16 | history | answered | Shog9 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |