Timeline for Is it alright to ask for programming tools?
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| May 3, 2017 at 8:41 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Aug 27, 2014 at 11:49 | comment | added | unor | About "software intended for illegal operations": We have some related discussions here on this Meta (our old Area51 discussions are not necessarily relevant), tagged with ethics. | |
| Mar 20, 2014 at 21:27 | comment | added | ApproachingDarknessFish | @Jeroen Added clarification in link text. | |
| Mar 20, 2014 at 21:27 | history | edited | ApproachingDarknessFish | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 20, 2014 at 15:18 | comment | added | Jeroen | The link in this answer suggests that such an exception actually does not exist: the accepted + most upvoted answer imo comes down to "It is not our place to determine what someone is going to do with a piece of software they ask about. Unless the [question] specifically states, "I plan to use [the] software to violate [...] laws," we should apply an innocent until proven guilty approach." | |
| Feb 24, 2014 at 17:19 | history | edited | Robert Cartaino | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 12, 2014 at 21:48 | comment | added | Ira Baxter | I don't mind opinionated answers which also provide verifiable properties. But "best" isn't verifiable. | |
| Feb 12, 2014 at 17:53 | comment | added | Kenny Evitt | @IraBaxter, even with lots of "verifiable properties", what's stopping answers from being opinionated? And why would we want answers without opinions? Are you saying that no one should write in an answer that program X is easier to use than program Y without some kind of citation of a meta-review of replicated scientific research? That seems too be far too steep of a criterion for acceptable answers. | |
| Feb 5, 2014 at 4:17 | comment | added | Ira Baxter | Programmers are end-users of certain kinds of software. They should be served by this site, too. I agree that questions about tools should contain specifics. "What is the best X" for some noun X can only produce opinionated answers, unless the request includes a lot of verifiable properties of X. | |
| Feb 5, 2014 at 0:01 | vote | accept | scubaFun | ||
| Feb 4, 2014 at 22:53 | history | edited | ApproachingDarknessFish | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 4, 2014 at 21:14 | comment | added | ApproachingDarknessFish | I would consider software libraries no different from any other software. Their purpose just happens to be writing more software. | |
| Feb 4, 2014 at 21:12 | comment | added | scubaFun | Thank you for your response, and I agree with you about making specific questions. What I wanted to point out is if such technical questions, of tools that are not exactly a software that can be consumed by an end-user, will be allowed here. | |
| Feb 4, 2014 at 21:04 | history | answered | ApproachingDarknessFish | CC BY-SA 3.0 |