Timeline for What is our policy on spinoff questions?
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| Mar 30, 2018 at 12:57 | history | edited | Masked Man |
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| Apr 10, 2017 at 16:36 | comment | added | Masked Man | @xDaizu This answer covers some of my concerns. Garbage attracts more garbage, as we have seen over and over and over again. 4 out of 10 "questions" in the sidebar garbage are "guess this sh**" or "Did Donald Trump say this sh**?", with no filtering options. So-called community managers calling it "entertainment" doesn't help either. Also, contact gnat for more details.:P | |
| Apr 10, 2017 at 15:51 | comment | added | xDaizu | ...Why the gratuitous hatred towards the HNQ? It's so full of fun and unexpected adventures and... wait, are you my employer? | |
| Mar 30, 2017 at 10:03 | answer | added | user27483 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 29, 2017 at 18:39 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackWorkplace/status/847156336903237633 | ||
| Mar 29, 2017 at 17:17 | answer | added | IDrinkandIKnowThings | timeline score: 4 | |
| Mar 29, 2017 at 10:37 | comment | added | Masked Man | If you go through the hypothetical example as well the real example (which is currently in comments, but I will edit it into the question later), those questions are good enough to stand on their own. They were only deleted because some people did not "like" them due to remembering another similar question. If you look at those two (now deleted) questions without remembering the "inspiring" question, you would have to find an (unsatisfactory) excuse to delete them. | |
| Mar 29, 2017 at 8:46 | comment | added | Walfrat | I think that all the points still apply : You should only ask practical, answerable questions based on actual problems that you face. (OK) ...this doesn't necessarily mean the question has to be your problem, it should just be a real problem. (OK) Above all, be honest. (NOK) If a question is really make you wonder how it should have been handled from another point of view, the minimum of honesty is to link it. And it has to stand on its own however a question which was inspired from another may become unclear because the first gave only the proper context from his point of view. | |
| Mar 29, 2017 at 8:13 | comment | added | Masked Man | @Walfrat Nothing to see there. It has to do with sockpuppets who post fake questions for rep-whoring. A spinoff question is still based on a real scenario. | |
| Mar 29, 2017 at 7:30 | comment | added | Walfrat | related : see Shog's answer workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4414/… | |
| Mar 28, 2017 at 19:10 | comment | added | Joe Strazzere | I'm waiting for the inevitable "How do I deal with a new colleague who went over the supervisor's head?" question. | |
| Mar 28, 2017 at 16:39 | comment | added | Masked Man | Update: Found the deleted question (visible to 10K+ users only): I approved a new hire's working hours change request without checking with his supervisor. How should I fix this? | |
| Mar 28, 2017 at 16:35 | comment | added | Masked Man | @Lilienthal There was one question which triggered two spinoffs yesterday, one of which got a few upvotes and answers, the other got deleted. This was the "inspiring" question: Dealing with an employee that went over my head. This was the 1st "spinoff" question: How should I go over my supervisor's head (before I've even started) without creating a bad impression?. The deleted question was asked from the "manager's manager's" perspective, but I didn't save a link to that. | |
| Mar 28, 2017 at 16:31 | comment | added | Lilienthal Mod | Do you perhaps have examples of questions that got lambasted just for being spinoffs? In general I would say that there's nothing wrong with a question being inspired by another provided the question can stand on its own merits. | |
| Mar 28, 2017 at 15:04 | history | asked | Masked Man | CC BY-SA 3.0 |