Timeline for Is it acceptable here to answer a question with "Go ask someone else?"
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| Dec 7, 2016 at 6:43 | comment | added | NZKshatriya | Over at Hardware Recommendations, I usually just leave a comment on off-topic questions, simply stating that the question is off topic, and will likely be closed, and try and point the usually new user in a direction that may be more appropriate, be it another stack, or another website entirely. This comes across as a little more polite than just voting to close, and less likely to alienate new users, though who knows how many actually come back, likely a lost cause, but I am a sucker for those. | |
| Dec 6, 2016 at 15:06 | comment | added | Lilienthal Mod | @djechlin That's really another discussion though and I'd suggest asking that as another question because I'm fairly sure most people would disagree with answering questions you've voted to close. | |
| Dec 6, 2016 at 14:39 | comment | added | user42272 | More succinctly, closed questions with answers are basically in an inconsistent state. Some of those answers are sort of good. It sends the message that closing a question is mostly an inconvenient thing that can happen to the OP because see all these other closed questions with good answers. To a new reader it's not really even clear what closing is all about because it's certainly not about questions being unable to answer. workplace.SE also has a phenomenal close rate. We're doing something bigger wrong still. | |
| Dec 6, 2016 at 14:37 | comment | added | user42272 | That reason isn't quite correct because some of the questions we close actually have answers that correctly answer the question. In this case the answer is too terse or generic to be of interest to us but it's not wrong. In SO it's "write my code for me" where someone elects to do it. So closed questions do have lingering answers that are good as far as the OP, not to mention future readers, are concerned. Thank you for acknowledging "that's not always the case" but I'm really claiming this is not exceptional at all. It just happens all the time. | |
| Dec 6, 2016 at 9:41 | comment | added | Lilienthal Mod | @djechlin That's not something I can agree with and it's often seen as very hypocritical and point whoring on here. There are systems in place to deter bad answers and close votes should be cast quickly on a community this size. That's not always the case but doesn't mean we should resort to things like that. Just leave a comment to explain why it's a bad question. If people don't read that or don't see the close vote (which new users can't of course), then an answer that says the question can't be answered won't help much. | |
| Dec 6, 2016 at 1:16 | comment | added | user42272 | and while you vote to close, another couple mediocre answers appear while the answer saying "go ask your manager" is omitted. In this situation I would strongly consider answering, then VTC. | |
| Nov 27, 2016 at 20:45 | history | edited | LilienthalMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 24, 2016 at 8:59 | history | answered | LilienthalMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |