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12:54 AM
How in the world did "[How do I raise a child]" get re-opened? parenting.stackexchange.com/questions/19018/…
 
 
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user132126
2:11 AM
@Mazura I wish I knew. Even if you remove all of the crazy back-story/plans, the basic question "any ideas on how to raise an amazing daughter?" is still way too broad to be valid.
 
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12:05 PM
User Lurrey has just posted their third spam comment on a single question, may I suggest a user block?
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2:36 PM
@Mazura @CreationEdge I think it could be radically rephrased to answer "how to raise a confident daughter who isn't influenced by sexism in media and advertising" but that would require substantial editing and almost nothing of the original question would remain. As it stands, however, it's just a lightning rod for people to bash the OP's suggestions (even many of the answers, let alone the comments!) and it's both too broad and too subjective :|
 
 
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3:39 PM
@DVK No @Beofett has some new work responsibilities that left him without time for the site.
@Erica I think these sorts of questions are uncomfortable, but important to have out there. It might seem a little crazy, but this is how some parents genuinely feel. I'm happy to provide a forum to shed a little light on the situation, even if it does cause a little chaos on the site for a while.
 
DVK
4:19 PM
@KarlBielefeldt - The question is... not very good. But it did manage to generate pretty useful and informative answers, at that, IMHO
 
 
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user132126
5:46 PM
@KarlBielefeldt It's not just that it's uncomfortable, it's that the whole thing is too broad and subjective like Erica said. The answers might have some informative content, but when the question is really "How to raise a kid?" it doesn't fit the Q&A format. A meta topic may be helpful.
 
user132126
It seems (to me) that a lot of our high-traffic and "hot" questions are actually poor questions, and nothing is done to improve them because they receive so many answers. How does the Parenting community handle this, especially when the bulk of the traffic/upvotes/comments seem to come from people who aren't normal Parenting users?
 
6:16 PM
They also tend to attract more "arguing with the premise" answers than average (which maybe half of the current Answers to that Question are either slightly or blatantly doing, although with some justification given the extremity of the proposed upbringing)
 
@AE, There's nothing wrong with the improvements you made to your answer, just try to consolidate them into two or three edits if you can. That way the page doesn't get bumped unnecessarily, people are more likely to read your improvements in your preferred form because they don't come in multiple parts, and the system doesn't auto-flag.
@DVK, @CreationEdge, @Erica, I definitely see your points. I think this would be a great meta topic. You should know it was reopened by the community, not by a unilateral moderator decision.
 
user132126
7:10 PM
Yeah, that's what surprised me the most! When it was first reopened it showed us the reopen voters.
 
@KarlBielefeldt I did see that, wasn't blaming The Mods :)
 
user132126
Well, there's this question already, came up as I was writing a new one: meta.parenting.stackexchange.com/questions/117/…
 

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