Timeline for Why are my questions downvoted and closed?
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| Mar 23, 2015 at 16:59 | comment | added | two sheds | @taninamdar: I posted this on the other answer too: constructive "why" questions are explicitly on-topic on this site according to the official FAQ | |
| Mar 22, 2015 at 18:47 | comment | added | Semaphore | @taninamdar Yes, I've long thought we do a very poor job of informing newcomers how and what to ask. If you have ideas to improve this please do start a meta topic on it. But that is very much not the same issue as the OP, who was repeatedly informed via comments on how to improve his questions. I don't think we should mix the two in discussion. | |
| Mar 22, 2015 at 15:32 | comment | added | taninamdar | @Semaphore Alright. Though not entirely satisfied, I definitely don't want this to become Yahoo answers. Still, we should seriously address the problem of being nice and helpful to newcomers. Because IMHO the main purpose of site should be being helpful than to firmly stick to dos and don'ts. It's even more important for us since we are still in beta phase for a very long time and hoping to come out of it. | |
| Mar 22, 2015 at 14:56 | comment | added | Semaphore | @taninamdar I'd imagine because we're not trying to duplicate Yahoo Answers. I don't think we're excluding a lot anyway. The example you named for instance is closed because it is very broad, but the underlying question (*why did the West become more advanced?") has been asked before in several ways. For example, this or this | |
| Mar 22, 2015 at 14:51 | comment | added | user8309 | +1. Thank you for your feedback. I'm biased but I agree with you. Your comment already has empowered me to try to stay. Merely to strengthen your argument, would it help to reinforce why 'Just the who, what, when and where questions, which in my opinion, are far too less interesting' ? | |
| Mar 22, 2015 at 14:39 | comment | added | taninamdar | @Semaphore But why (oops! ;-) ) do we have such rigid and restricted standards that exclude vast amount of interesting questions? | |
| Mar 22, 2015 at 13:40 | comment | added | Semaphore | Disagree with the contention that we should degrade the standards for questions on this site. IMHO we should be kind to newcomers by helping them formulate their questions in an acceptable way instead. | |
| Mar 22, 2015 at 12:15 | history | answered | taninamdar | CC BY-SA 3.0 |