just stumbled upon a couple of meta links from that Soft Rec beta. These guys apparently have learned a lot from NPR fiasco. If they manage to build a community to enforce guidelines like that, it might become an valuable site...
This is the question edition of What is required for an answer to be high quality?
One of the key problems that I see Software Recommendations having, is people asking extremely vague and simple questions that ultimately boil down to one of the two close reasons we see on the rest of the network...
It's a pretty simple checklist to ask a good, narrowly-scoped recommendation question. I'll make a rough outline here, I'm currently revising this (which is based on the original ground rules that I posted pre-launch).
1. Straight to the point, succinct title
Don't use words like 'best' or 'goo...
Before this proposal went into beta, Tim Post laid out some ground rules on Area 51. If you haven't read them yet, I strongly encourage you to do so. The problem, a lot of you guys aren't following them, and it's really bringing down the overall quality of a just-blooming site. It's beginning to ...
This is the answer edition of What is required for a question to contain "enough information"?
As a continuation of the above, the second key problem that I see Software Recommendations having, is people answering questions in a manner that is extremely low quality and not very useful for future...
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