Timeline for The "bare/bear with me" question: what should we do with it?
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| Mar 16, 2017 at 16:02 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://meta.english.stackexchange.com/ with https://english.meta.stackexchange.com/
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| Mar 16, 2017 at 16:02 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://meta.english.stackexchange.com/ with https://english.meta.stackexchange.com/
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| Mar 28, 2016 at 21:41 | vote | accept | herisson | ||
| Mar 19, 2016 at 0:04 | history | edited | Sven Yargs | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Added an update to the final paragraph of my answer.
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| Mar 16, 2016 at 17:52 | comment | added | Sven Yargs | @sumelic: I have serious misgivings about my "high-scoring answers deserve a degree of respect and tolerance because they are high scoring" position, too. On the one hand, many Q&A's that have done well in the past (and many new ones that do well today) aren't especially interesting as questions or answers. The "bare"/"bear" Q&A could stand for many such, as could a randomly selected single-word request. But I am even more uneasy about dismissing the evident popularity of these questions as irrelevant to what English Language & Usage is about. The issue of identity is quite challenging. | |
| Mar 16, 2016 at 17:40 | comment | added | Sven Yargs | ... Is the answer that the policy/process consist of having users request (in a flag) that moderators consider locking the question? | |
| Mar 16, 2016 at 17:40 | comment | added | Sven Yargs | @curiousdannii: The question I asked about locking came up in the context of Kit Z. Fox’s answer to the Meta question Is there any point in closing questions that are more than a year old? where she mentioned “mark[ing old questions] with a historical flag.” I asked how that process worked, and she replied, “I don't think we have an established policy and we may need some discussion.” That’s why I posted my question. ... | |
| Mar 16, 2016 at 15:09 | comment | added | herisson | Thank you for posting a response! I agree that the question probably does not have much, if any, practical effect on new users asking questions. I don't think it's very useful as a Google search result (it's OK, but general references provide guidance that is almost as useful, and our top answer is just a quotation from another web site). I'm not sure if I agree that a question deserves respect and tolerance just for earning many upvotes over the years. | |
| Mar 16, 2016 at 8:22 | comment | added | curiousdannii | The only step is to flag the question and ask the mod to apply the flag. Your question though is confusing because it's asking for exemption from closure and the historical lock, which though not strictly incompatible, usually are. | |
| Mar 16, 2016 at 7:57 | history | answered | Sven Yargs | CC BY-SA 3.0 |