Timeline for Is this question OK ? Why, why not?
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| May 3, 2016 at 13:56 | comment | added | user45590 | @Sheldonator, re #2, arguably the same attitude/behavior is found in the question itself in the note at the top. | |
| May 3, 2016 at 10:01 | comment | added | Sheldonator | You seem to be right. I'll flag the question, then. My original question doesn't change though. I used this one because it seemed to illustrate my point, but it's still about correctly formulated on-topic questions with questionable (but legal) intent. | |
| May 3, 2016 at 9:51 | comment | added | PlasmaHH | @Sheldonator: The wording of that comment ("whose really interested") makes it clear that this is not just another way to apply that question, but that this is the real thing behind it. | |
| May 3, 2016 at 9:45 | comment | added | Sheldonator | I do not agree. You don't get fired from your family (... well, in a sense, you could, if it's about inheritance), and you don't get guaranteed offers to get into another family once you're fired from your current one. The contexts are completely different and can hardly be compared. | |
| May 3, 2016 at 9:41 | comment | added | Pavel Janicek | I admit I am totally speculating here. But if you replace "future employer" with "family member" as OP suggests, then the real answer is: "Grow a pair and talk to your relatives about how do you hate your current job" | |
| May 3, 2016 at 9:38 | comment | added | Sheldonator | Mmh... Being able to apply the question to another context does not mean the question is not on-topic, this sounds highly fallacious to me. Someone being harassed by his coworkers could ask a question (of course, this is probably a duplicate, this is not the point) about how to handle it, and you could say that it is not workplace related because you could replace "someone" by "some kid" and "coworkers" by "classmates" and it would still make sense. | |
| May 3, 2016 at 9:34 | comment | added | Pavel Janicek | I edited the answer a lot, adding my other speculation | |
| May 3, 2016 at 9:33 | history | edited | Pavel Janicek | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
speculating about why the question is off topic
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| May 3, 2016 at 9:00 | comment | added | Pavel Janicek | True. My personal belief is however that if borderline question comes from bad behaving user, it gains more reasons to get closed. | |
| May 3, 2016 at 8:59 | comment | added | Sheldonator | 2. This is about OP's behavior, and not the question, though. | |
| May 3, 2016 at 8:53 | history | answered | Pavel Janicek | CC BY-SA 3.0 |