Timeline for Google is not General Reference
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| Jan 20, 2012 at 14:14 | comment | added | Matt E. Эллен | @Marthaª I think you have a point there. I'll try it out. | |
| Jan 20, 2012 at 2:15 | comment | added | Marthaª | @MattЭллен, it seems to me you're voting to close as "general reference" when you should be merely voting down (no research effort/unclear/not useful). | |
| Jan 19, 2012 at 20:11 | comment | added | Jeff Yates | Excuses for what? | |
| Jan 19, 2012 at 19:25 | comment | added | Matt E. Эллен | @JeffYates - Make up whatever excuses you like. Boring questions are boring. I can vote to close them. My justification is that it doesn't reach the level of English comprehension expected by the site. If people disagree then either the question won't be closed or it will be reopened. This site is not Stack Overflow for English, it sets the bar higher for questions. | |
| Jan 19, 2012 at 18:56 | comment | added | Jeff Yates | The level of the question does not dictate seriousness. If I really don't know something, I can seriously need the answer, regardless of how basic you feel it is. A standpoint of "that's too basic" really starts to sound elitist. | |
| Jan 19, 2012 at 18:55 | comment | added | Jeff Yates | Do not confuse serious and expert then. I assume serious means I am not going to joke around, but if I legitimately need to know the meaning of a phrase or the appropriate usage, I should be able to ask, and Google is not an option as I would not know how to interpret the results if I am not an expert. If I have to be an expert to use the site, why would the site exist? Make the Internet better, not worse. | |
| Jan 19, 2012 at 18:49 | comment | added | Matt E. Эллен | @JeffYates - did you read the first line of the FAQ? It states who this site if for. | |
| Jan 19, 2012 at 17:38 | comment | added | Jeff Yates | The site should not only be for "serious English language enthusiast"s - the answers should be provided by those kinds of people, but questions should be from anyone who needs the answer. This isn't a clique. | |
| Jan 18, 2012 at 21:55 | history | answered | Matt E. Эллен | CC BY-SA 3.0 |