Timeline for Can Etiquette Questions Be Answered Consistently with Stack Standards?
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| May 31, 2018 at 13:00 | comment | added | Em C | If you see someone use Mr. Evil's Blog to "back up" their assertion that you should be mean to someone, by all means ask for another source and downvote. That's something we can challenge more easily and objectively than "In my experience, being mean to people is great and never has problems!" (because if it's only experience, then we're limited to saying "well, I think you're a liar"). | |
| May 31, 2018 at 12:57 | comment | added | Em C | @Daniel, you could have the same objections about the author of a published article. The point is that with a known author there's enough verifiable information out there to know what their experience is, so you can make an educated choice on whether to take it into account. You can very easily search for the two other blogs I mentioned and see how well-known they are and what other people have to say about them. | |
| May 31, 2018 at 12:56 | comment | added | user6109 | @Em C: The difference is, you can tell me directly what experience you have and how this applies specifically to my problem. The Blogger may be well respected but still have no relevant authority in my specific case and certainly won´t explain it to me here. Also its random user with 100 up-votes on his answer, that gives it authority. So in the end the one may be as good a backup as the other. | |
| May 31, 2018 at 12:50 | comment | added | user6109 | @Em C: Respected by whom? I personally don´t trust Mr. Money Mustache for several reasons so I would see his articles more as opinion than factual source. Never heard of Ask A Manager or Captain Awkward so If you cited them I´d have to go/ask/research what relevant experience they have. I´d maybe rather still hear from you that you personally applied X with success than some opinion of an unbeknownst to me blogger that may have put it up for clicks rather than truth ... | |
| May 31, 2018 at 12:25 | comment | added | Em C | @Daniel Also... I don't see a difference from writing a first-person experience directly on this site vs. quoting it from a "random blogger", either way to readers it's "This random user says X". With a well-known blog, it's "Jane, of the popular blog ABC that is read by many [demographic]s, recommends..." and we can look up who Jane is and what her blog's reputation is and take that into account. (Again as an example, for all the blogs above, you can find interviews of the writers from other sources, see how widely they are quoted, etc.) | |
| May 31, 2018 at 12:23 | comment | added | Em C | @Daniel please note that I didn't write "Random blogger X", I specifically said "Respected [subject] blogger". I meant well-known, reputable blogs would be a good source. (For example, I would consider Ask A Manager, Captain Awkward, and Mr. Money Mustache to be such blogs for workplace, social skills, and personal finance respectively.) | |
| May 31, 2018 at 9:46 | comment | added | user6109 | I don´t really see how: Random blogger X writes you should do Y is a better backup than I have personally been there and this is how I experienced Y - I can find you a link for almost any absurd opinion, but as long as it´s not in a scientific paper, dictionary or at least written by some recognized expert, it may well be less credible than firsthand experience. | |
| May 26, 2018 at 17:18 | comment | added | Em C | Well, your concern about verification and precision is something that's been discussed for most of the site's existence, because this stack is so subjective in nature :) But because etiquette is about standard behavior, I think it's more like asking "what's the pythonic way to do this?" or "how should I name my Java variables?", where you can reference style guides and/or discuss pros and cons of the most popular approaches, where the popular approaches are defined and limited. & if it isn't limited or reference-able... maybe the answer is "there is no standard etiquette for this situation." | |
| May 26, 2018 at 17:03 | comment | added | Upper_Case | I've been thinking about your answer, and I am persuaded by most of it. However, I think that the SO comparison raises an interesting issue. Programming answers involve a verifiable result and a precisely observable methodology, which is what allows varying approaches to be OK. IPS questions don't quite have this character. Perhaps the stack would be best served with some very rigid rules about what counts as sufficient evidence to "back it up", though that would probably be a stack-wide issue and not limited to etiquette. | |
| May 26, 2018 at 0:29 | comment | added | curiousdannii | I'll just add that we also encourage questions to specify a culture (and sometimes require it) so that even if there might be conflicting answers when everyone on earth is considered, when answers are limited to the culture asked about there won't be. | |
| May 25, 2018 at 17:23 | history | answered | Em C | CC BY-SA 4.0 |