@damryfbfnetsi to which question? And yes, you've found my complete answer to why HW questions should stay OT. A link to that Meta-Q could be included in the closure reason.
I've also removed your "instead", as IMHO it makes no sense to have the OP detailing his current hardware when the question is about recommending new hardware. I might be wrong with that, though.
@Izzy Oh, sorry, I didn't notice your chat message. I added it back in before I saw that. Should I roll it back?
@Izzy See my comment on the answer for details on why I added that.
@Izzy Basically, it's asking the post author to convert their question from "What is the best HW to run this specific SW?" to "What is the best alternative to SW that runs on this specific HW?"
@Undo What do you think about the hardware custom close reason?
@Izzy I've linked directly to the answer (and removed your user code from the URL).
@Izzy According to my comment, that close reason is specifically for questions of the form detailed above. However, you're right, as due to its wording, it could be prone to misuse on any hardware-rec question, including those that are blatantly off-topic
@damryfbfnetsi While generally removing "user code" is not nice, in this case you're absolutely right: it has nothing to do in closure reasons. Sorry for me missing it!
I'm not convinced we should have a close reason refering to the question quality guidelines. All too often I see people leaving a generic comment saying RTFguidelines, instead of a comment tailored to the question (add this and that information). I'm afraid a custom close reason would exacerbate that.
This question appears to be off-topic because it does not contain enough information to give good recommendations, or it does not meet our minimum quality requirements. For guidelines on what your question should contain, please see What is required for a question to contain "enough information"?
I'm not convinced we should have a close reason refering to the question quality guidelines. All too often I see people leaving a generic comment saying RTFguidelines, instead of a comment tailored to the question (add this and that information). I'm afraid a custom close reason would exacerbate that.
Questions that solicit discussion or feature comparisons between multiple products rather than asking for recommendations that fit within our clearly defined requirements are off-topic for this site. Instead, describe the exact features you're looking for in your question.
Questions that solicit discussion or feature comparisons between multiple products rather than asking for recommendations that fit within our clearly defined requirements are off-topic for this site. Instead, describe the exact features you're looking for in your question.
Requests for hosting providers and services in general, is outside our scope, through we accept asking for applications hosted in the internet (WebApps).
I don't see the point of the hardware one: the main reason we forbid them is that the site name is software recommendations, so if you ask for a hardware recommendation, it's clearly off-topic
@Gilles As we already pointed out (and I then followed this advice), using canned responses is fine but one should "personalize" it. Taking that "not enough information" example, I usually start with the canned response, and then add some hints on what exactly is missing.
@Gilles What I meant by that is that new users would think that their questions mention "software" and they are "recommendations", so thay might think that it is therefore on-topic for "software recommendations"
This won't happen maybe in the U.S., but it could happen in developing places like India
@Gilles I assume you live in the U.S., so I think you'd understand what I mean above
@damryfbfnetsi again, you're using a plural tense. We aren't going to anticipate what people may do. Per-site close reasons are for common issues, not for hypothetical issues.
@damryfbfnetsi you aren't very observant, are you?
I just realized that there is a Stack Overflow "development and testing" site (http://dev.stackoverflow.com/) that says that you must receive an invitation e-mail in order to join. I have a couple questions about it:
Do moderators have access to it? Rather than being paid employees of Stack Exc...
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Requests for hosting providers and services in general, is outside our scope, through we accept asking for applications hosted in the internet (WebApps).
