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No such thing as a stupid question
Keep in mind what is common sense to you might not be to other people.
There are plenty of situations on here that a lot of people look at and think, "duh, do X" but if it was that obvious to ...
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Is "We can't answer this" a valid answer?
If I'm voting / flagging a question to close, I don't answer it - in my opinion, doing so can give the impression that the the question is legitimate, which then encourages other people to ask similar ...
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Is "We can't answer this" a valid answer?
In my personal opinion, that is not a valid answer. But unless we have clear community consensus on this, don't expect mods to actively delete them. But here are some tools you can use:
Close votes....
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Are ergonomics questions regarding home offices off-topic?
someone questioned whether it being about a home office made this specific question off-topic
Do we no longer take questions from professional green keepers because the don't do their job indoors at ...
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How much leeway is there for opinion based questions when the questions is likely to come up repeatedly?
Sometimes the answer makes the question.
I don't like the seemingly dogmatic approach I see sometimes taken by the community (sorry, no example) on the subject. I often come across reasonably well-...
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How to handle answers that are high risk to the OP?
Ah the good old Hot Network Questions
Welcome to the populist swamp that The Workplace becomes when it ends up on the Hot Network Questions. You'll find that in many cases, answers on HNQs tend to get ...
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Are ergonomics questions regarding home offices off-topic?
If the ergonomics question would apply to the work office, it would equally apply to the home office.
We have some folks who like to close as many questions as possible.
If this question gets closed,...
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Are ergonomics questions regarding home offices off-topic?
For what it's worth I didn't VTC that question (and it's still just about clinging to being open at time of writing).
I think ergonomics questions pertaining to home-offices can be on-topic here, I'...
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I edited my question. How do I get it back?
It's a pity this question is closed, because even if the the wrong question is posed, there are a few great answers that the community may find interesting.
I am not satisfied with the mentality of &...
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Is this question about a man being harassed at work off topic?
Having read the original posting, I can understand why it was voted off-topic. "How can my female supervisor think she's done nothing wrong" reads sort of like a rant/complaint and by taking ...
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(Done) Should this question on getting fired on the last day be marked off topic?
So why haven't the users who answered reopened the question?
Many times people who answer a question don't track what happens with that question later So perhaps they never noticed that the question ...
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Close reason for personalised writing help
Would the wording here fix that?
I think that suggested wording is great and would address what you are asking for:
It is not practical for us to answer a question that depends so heavily on ...
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Where is company specific policy or asking for advice in my question?
I don't think the question is off topic, but it is easy to misunderstand this.
Someone from a country where this sort of thing is regulated by company policies and not by labor law will vote to close ...
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Are questions and comments involving management theory appropriate?
Discussion of managerial theory strikes me as a bit tangential for Workplace unless it is being applied to specifics, as @dragoon1228 said. It bears the same relationship to our topic as math does to ...
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(Done) Should this question on getting fired on the last day be marked off topic?
Should this question on getting fired on the last day be marked off topic?
Actually it was marked "primarily opinion-based" because it asked in part for speculation on the state of mind of the ...
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(Done) How can this question regarding ADHD in the workplace be improved?
I voted to reopen, dealing with a particular disability is not too broad a subject to answer.
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Removing the word "career" from the Off topic close reason
Yes lets remove the word Career from the close reason and go with the wording that was originally well received.
Questions asking for advice on a specific choice, such as what job to
take or what ...
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Where is company specific policy or asking for advice in my question?
I reopened this, it had two reopen votes and both Monica and I agreed it should be reopened.
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Close reason for personalised writing help
I'm not so sure such questions are off-topic. Some are ("please proofread my resignation letter") and some aren't ("what salutation do I use in a cover letter when the sex of the recipient is ...
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Why was this question from guy who stole food off-topic?
I'm not sure when all of the close votes came in, but if you look at the revision history of the question, it's clear that the original version of the question was off topic. Monica made some good ...
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Why was this question from guy who stole food off-topic?
Cast first vote to reopen. You've convinced me.
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How can I make this question on job searching (find jobs that hire based on skills tests) on-topic?
I think this might be a case of an XY Problem.
The XY problem is asking about your attempted solution rather than your actual problem.
That is, you are trying to solve problem X, and you think ...
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How can I make this question on job searching (find jobs that hire based on skills tests) on-topic?
I think any answer is going to become obsolete very quickly and without notice, which generally means it isn't in Stack Exchange's scope.
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Are questions and comments involving management theory appropriate?
After reading through several of the other posts I may have come across the answer.
Theory, while very useful confronting "agony aunt" questions and possibly individuals who have built their ...
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How to handle answers that are high risk to the OP?
I disagree with your chatacterization of the answers as being high risk.
While it is true that some organizations have a culture of no time off, violating that cultural expectation is unlikely to ...
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Is "We can't answer this" a valid answer?
If I post that. I usually do so as a comment while flagging/voting for closure. But sometimes "mu" really is the only answer we can give.
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Where is company specific policy or asking for advice in my question?
The question is the perfect example of off topic. Just look at the last two paragraphs:
What does this mean for German employee? Is it necessary to use own
vacation days (which may be out after a ...
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