Linked Questions
13 questions linked to/from How to ask and answer software recommendation questions - aka 'The Ground Rules'
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What is required for a question to contain "enough information"?
This is the question edition of What is required for an answer to be high quality?
One of the key problems that I see Software Recommendations having, is people asking extremely vague and simple ...
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What is required for an answer to be high quality?
This is the answer edition of What is required for a question to contain "enough information"?
As a continuation of the above, the second key problem that I see Software Recommendations ...
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Are we becoming lax about answer quality?
I'm concerned.
Overall, I think we're doing great. We get more questions per day than all but 8 beta sites, we have awesome users with tons of reputation that help out, and we have a pretty decent ...
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Random inappropriate necro-deletion of decent, helpful, upvoted answer
I posted a quick answer to a question a while ago. I wasn't super detailed and it certainly wasn't a model answer, but I provided a service to the community by being the only one to recommend a ...
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What kind of software recommendations is this site for?
I don't understand..
if I ask for a list of software, it is too broad.
if I ask for the best, it is opinionable
if I simply ask to detail the feature of one good graphic program it's not the mission ...
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Show new users the interstitial pages before they can ask questions
Allow me to start this discussion off by saying that though the requirements of this site are a bit relaxed, there are still some rules that posters need to follow. New users tend to post low-quality ...
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Can we afford deleting not good quality answers?
I really really love your passion but I think you didn't take everything into consideration.
You are stating wonderful rules for achieving a really good quality answers and questions. But they ...
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Should this answer stick around and be considered as an answer? As per the sites ground rules?
Should this be considered as an answer and be allowed to stick around? Or should it be deleted?
The reason I ask is that it doesn't meet the all the requirements of the question.
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quirkiness ...
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Would a more rigid question template help achieve a consistent quality?
On other sites much more variation in the question structure is expected. For instance on stackoverflow some questions are very short code snippets, some are in depth debugging - the asker needs a lot ...
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Is the perfect enemy of the good?
I have a general question, which, I think, is well demonstrated in this Q&A (and the comments beneath my answer).
So, the TS has a question about good tool for beginners. Obviously, that's the ...
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Is my question bad or off topic?
This is my first question in Software Recommendation. I am surprised to see so many downvotes. Is the question really that bad? Please someone explain so I can delete my question after knowing the ...
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We need the asking and answering advice pages back!
Allow me to start this discussion off by saying that though the requirements of this site are a bit relaxed, there are still some rules that posters need to follow. New users tend to post low-quality ...
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Please update the Help Center's "What topics can I ask about here?"
The SE podcast summary lured me to Software Recommendations. I've had a question for a while now that my gut told me would be on topic.
As a moderately active SE citizen I wanted to be careful though ...
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