Timeline for Why was CAgrippa's awesome FAQ-worthy religion question closed?
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| Feb 16, 2015 at 16:25 | comment | added | Damian Yerrick | I thought questions were protected to prevent "me too". Or at least that's what the protection notice on a couple SE sites states. | |
| Dec 10, 2014 at 23:34 | comment | added | Dronz | Ok, but I have been using Stack Exchange for years (not that I pay strict attention to all the site philosophy) and this close reason had me think this was discouraged. Similarly, the most recent comment on the question itself shows someone else thinking that question was not good for the site. If a great example of a broad question can be good for the site, and I think this is a great example of that, then it still seems confusing to have that as the close reason. At least, I was confused. :-) Not sure I have a better suggestion - "Closed as Rhetorical Question"? "Closed to prevent me too"? | |
| Dec 10, 2014 at 22:11 | comment | added | Tim B Mod | If that one was not closed then future enormously broad questions can point to that one and say "but mine is less broad than that, why was it not closed?". The results are problematic even with self-answered questions, very problematic for normal questions. | |
| Dec 10, 2014 at 22:10 | comment | added | Tim B Mod | @Dronz There was a problem, the question was too broad. Look at just how long CAgrippa's answer was, and even that didn't cover anything. Other answers were trying to help but got deleted, downvoted, etc. It was an amazing resource, so we have no intention of deleting it, but equally it's not a model for questions to follow in the future. | |
| Dec 10, 2014 at 21:43 | comment | added | Dronz | It seems odd or unclear for the close reason to be "too broad" when it is asked and answered by the same person by design, and is basically providing a great answer to a general field of questions. The "too broad" suggests to me that there was something wrong with doing this. Seems like ideally there would be a close reason that doesn't seem to indicate a problem. | |
| Dec 10, 2014 at 20:08 | history | answered | Monica CellioMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |