Timeline for How do 'Trivia' Questions meet the requirements for posting?
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| Feb 19, 2022 at 16:34 | history | edited | Thomas Markov | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 6, 2014 at 12:54 | comment | added | mxyzplk Mod | Practical optimization should be on topic (I want to play a grapple fighter), but I'm not super happy about theoretical optimization, which is why the "flying goblin question" or whatever it was got closed. | |
| Aug 6, 2014 at 12:30 | comment | added | user4000 | @mxyzplk Then tell me how character optimization is on topic? Code golf is like character optimization. "I want to make the best grapple fighter" is not really a "problem". | |
| May 29, 2013 at 14:00 | vote | accept | Wibbs | ||
| May 26, 2013 at 15:05 | comment | added | mxyzplk Mod | And the reason I disagree with the "2.0" thoughts in that thread and agree with Jeff Atwood is that people are likely to use the jettisoning of this requirement to justify asking all kinds of bad questions. Game theory (or physics theory or whatever) is OK. "Code Golf" kinds of "how high does the goblin fly" are not, neither are trivia questions. Our site is doing just fine with practical, answerable questions. Most examples to the contrary (on the other 2.0 sites too) are red herrings. | |
| May 26, 2013 at 3:27 | comment | added | wax eagle | @mxyzplk then we might as well shut down Christianity, Chemistry, Physics, Skeptics and half of SE 2.0. If that distinction was tightly held those sites would not be able to exist in the form they've taken. It's a distinction that works well for programming sites, but honestly doesn't hold up as we branch out in topics (see the MSO discussion I linked on the question). | |
| May 26, 2013 at 3:25 | comment | added | wax eagle | @Flamma exactly this. | |
| May 25, 2013 at 21:59 | comment | added | Flamma | @mxyzplk I find the distinction between "actual problems you face" quite subjective. If I want to write a history of gaming article maybe not knowing who invented the XP term is an "actual problem I face". How can we know if one question is an actual problem? | |
| May 25, 2013 at 21:44 | comment | added | Wibbs | @Wax Eagle - but who defines what 'general interest' means? Does it come down to the number of up and down votes a question gets? | |
| May 25, 2013 at 19:20 | comment | added | mxyzplk Mod | It's fine to think questions like this are on topic, but "practical answerable questions based on actual problems that you face" is one of the key differentiators of SE sites from the junk forums of the world. -1 for that. | |
| May 25, 2013 at 18:44 | history | answered | wax eagle | CC BY-SA 3.0 |