Timeline for What is an opinion-based question and why should it be closed?
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| Jan 12, 2015 at 12:22 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | I disagree that the two questions you specify should have been closed as POB. While opinions were obviously involved more than in some other cases in arriving at conclusions on the acceptability of singular they say, opinions were researched and presented in a balanced way. POB here means 'answers are almost certainly going to merely express answerers' preferences, perhaps even stated as though they were indisputably and uniquely correct'. Not 'answers may well express different viewpoints here, hopefully each with good supportive arguments and references'. | |
| Jan 12, 2015 at 11:55 | comment | added | ivanhoescott | @EdwinAshworth You seem to miss my point. I'm not saying that a question like 'What's the best single word to describe the films of Hitchcock?' should not be closed. I'm saying that most questions on the English language is more or less opinion-based so that it's wrong to close a question just because it involves opinions. In short, don't abuse the POB reason. | |
| Jan 12, 2015 at 10:05 | history | edited | Mari-Lou A | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 10, 2015 at 11:15 | comment | added | user63230 | @ivanhoescott Yes, perhaps I do live in a different world. In my world, bullies can only bully me if I let them. I don't. | |
| Jan 10, 2015 at 11:06 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | OK, I was using synecdoche. As I said, there's no such thing as a perfect human organisation. Are you suggesting that there be no control over questions like 'What's the best single word to describe the films of Hitchcock?' 'What's a colour between taupe and 'harvest beige'?'? Or do you have a suggestion for a better POB definition? Nohat and Joshua Karstendick give fine referenced answers to the questions you see as POB candidates. Pointing out (with evidences) that opinions are divided amongst Anglophones in general is not at all the same as a bunfight here, squabbling over pet dislikes. | |
| Jan 10, 2015 at 4:59 | comment | added | ivanhoescott | @EdwinAshworth "On ELU, the policing body deciding on 'overly-opinion-basedness' is the community." This is not necessarily true. It only needs five votes to close any question. | |
| Jan 10, 2015 at 1:17 | comment | added | ivanhoescott | @andy256 It needs only five votes to close any question. If you think there's no bullying in this site, perhaps you live in a different world. | |
| Jan 9, 2015 at 23:30 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | Since there is no Academy to legislate on what is 'correct', it could be argued that all answers are going to be POB (we slap the term onto the question, of course). But with many, there will be broad agreement about correctness or otherwise amongst many respected anglophones. Again, there is no body set up to decide when this becomes sufficient to make a word or construct 'acceptable'. On ELU, the policing body deciding on 'overly-opinion-basedness' is the community. As with all democracies, it's imperfect. But better than almost all dictatorships. | |
| Jan 9, 2015 at 17:28 | answer | added | SrJoven | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jan 9, 2015 at 7:16 | comment | added | ivanhoescott | @Mari-LouA Are you saying that every single question that involves opinions should be closed? | |
| Jan 9, 2015 at 6:38 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | An opinion based question would be something on the lines of 1) Do you think God is gender neutral? 2) Why is the pronoun "he" and not "they" used for God? 3) Is the term God archaic and misused nowadays? etc. There is no "right" answer for these type of questions, the resulting answers will be based on opinions and personal convictions. The questions you have quoted were asked nearly five years ago, perhaps today they would be closed for being general reference | |
| Jan 9, 2015 at 6:32 | history | edited | Mari-Lou A | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 9, 2015 at 3:15 | comment | added | user63230 | When choosing between a conspiracy theory and simple human error, prefer human error. | |
| Jan 8, 2015 at 21:44 | history | edited | ivanhoescott | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 8, 2015 at 16:52 | comment | added | Kevin | possible duplicate of What the "primarily opinion-based" close reason is for | |
| Jan 8, 2015 at 14:15 | history | edited | ivanhoescott | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 8, 2015 at 14:04 | history | asked | ivanhoescott | CC BY-SA 3.0 |