Conversation started Aug 17, 2021 at 18:57.
Anil London
Anil London
Aug 17, 2021 18:57
@Sarov hello
Sarov
Sarov
As an aside about your question, I do get where you're coming from. I tried to enter into English.SE a couple times, but decided to give up after my second closure.
The main difference being that when I posted comments asking/clarifying about the closure, I got radio silence.
Had my comments been addressed, then the se would have been functioning properly, imo. Including the closures (assuming they were valid, which I still doubt today).
Tinkeringbell
Tinkeringbell
@Sarov Tried meta?
Anil London
Anil London
@Sarov Yes it's better if it's addressed. I agree with you
Sarov
Sarov
@Tinkeringbell Nah, didn't think of that at the time.
Tinkeringbell
Tinkeringbell
@Sarov Could still do it :P
Sarov
Sarov
Aug 17, 2021 19:03
Hmm. Could, I suppose. I'd just have to work up the effort to care again. :P
Anil London
Anil London
@Sarov Those are some very good points of view. It really feels hard to have other contributors judge the questions so ruthlessly all the time
Sarov
Sarov
Ehh. I still think the 'harsh' is in your head. A close vote just means 'we don't think the site will meet its stated goals well by accepting answers to this'.
Anil London
Anil London
@Sarov okay well that makes sense at least
Sarov
Sarov
I throw out close votes like candy on pmse, because so many incoming questions are for software recommendations or homework questions. The former get a stock 'this is off topic' message, while the latter I leave a comment asking the OP to reword it to something broadly-applicable.
Sometimes for the latter, the OP even does, and thus I retract the close vote.
That's an instance of the site working properly.
For the former, yeah, it kind of sucks that we just can't help them at all. But if we did try to help them, pmse would be flooded with aged questions suggesting to use outdated software, and the quality of the site itself would go down.
A close vote is the only option.
Anil London
Anil London
@Sarov it's very good to hear all of that information from you. Thank you.
Sarov
Sarov
Aug 17, 2021 19:12
It's a definite balancing act between being welcoming and creating a useful repo of knowledge. But as much as it sucks to get downvotes or close votes, SE needs those things. Or else it'll just devolve into Youtube comments or Reddit.
@AnilLondon No problem.
Anil London
Anil London
@Sarov the positivity arrived in the end as it was hoped for. I'm pleased.
Sarov
Sarov
Aug 17, 2021 20:00
internal screaming
> We all know that encrypting and decrypting web.config sections can be easily accomplished using the aspnet_regiis tool - stackoverflow.com/q/12824879/8478506
That is what I found upon searching 'how to use aspnet_regiis to encrypt web.config'
Me: "How to do X?"
Question title: "How to do X?"
Question Summary: "Everyone knows how to do X, but how to do Y given X?"
 
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Anil London
Anil London
Aug 17, 2021 21:04
That is an excellent example of a difficult question to think about. Yeah Sarov it's not easy.
 
Conversation ended Aug 17, 2021 at 21:04.