Timeline for When you don't remember a "word"
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| Nov 29, 2018 at 19:52 | comment | added | MetaEd Mod | @Tonepoet If it helps, "Real Questions Have Answers" (not guesses or ideas) is linked to by every site's "What types of questions should I avoid asking" page. So that's authoritative, and calls all requests for guesswork a bad fit. "Let's Play The Guessing Game" just gives more of the rationale for why they're a bad fit. | |
| Nov 29, 2018 at 5:58 | comment | added | Tonepoet | Although I have my doubts about regarding whether or not these are against present guidelines (network-wide closure reasons were reworked since the guessing games post), if you, as the due authority, are firm on this issue, I would suggest closing these questions as P.O.B. in the future. "Please include the research..." may have ben more accurate or less questionable, but it also makes it seem like you want questioners to cite a thesaurus or something along those lines rather than addressing concerns about subjectivity guideline that regard the question's very nature. | |
| Nov 27, 2018 at 21:23 | comment | added | MetaEd Mod | @Mari-LouA The chat referral works for new contributors as long as they have 20 SE reputation. Doesn't have to be ELU. It can be any site, or even distributed among multiple sites as long as it adds up to 20. meta.stackexchange.com/questions/257816/… | |
| Nov 27, 2018 at 18:11 | comment | added | Kevin | @Mari-LouA: Remember that chat is not there to solve the asker's problem. It is there to provide an outlet, much like the "off-topic" boards that every forum in the universe has been forced to create. Nobody cares if users actually get their help from chat, just that they don't clog up the main site. | |
| Nov 27, 2018 at 9:36 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | Do "new contributors" come to chat asking for help on SWRs? I have seen a number of comments left by you encouraging them to pass by. Do they ever? Could you please supply a link where that happened? I'm specifically asking about new users not veterans of chat. | |
| Nov 27, 2018 at 1:48 | comment | added | Mitch | But note that a 'tip of the tongue' question, where all hints are given, and all prior research, can be a good SWR. Or you could say in a dual manner is that the reason SWRs are so bad is because they are thinly veiled 'top-of-the-tongue' guessing games. | |
| Nov 26, 2018 at 21:38 | history | answered | MetaEdMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |