Would asking about github.com/bbrk24/Trilangle/issues/1 be considered on-topic for PLDI? Not in a “anyone want to do this?” way, but in a “how do I approach this?” way
I think you're just seeing specificity as a symptom of other issues with questions and assigning the badness to the specificity instead of the cause of it
My goal on this site, correct me if I'm mistaken, is to help as many people as possible. An overly specific question might have a very slight negative impact by cluttering a few searches, but it also significantly helps at least one person. That's a tradeoff we should be willing to make.
@RydwolfPrograms Especially when the site is young we really really need to avoids specific questions. If we have a solid body of generic questions to search it doesn't matter as much
If someone comes here looking for help we shouldn't be criticizing them for looking for help for themselves instead of help for some vague other
@mousetail Nobody's saying specific questions should be canonical, you can always ask a more generic version
And we will have meta to discuss things like that
SO was the first SE site. They didn't have the knowledge of the future to know that what they were doing would end up with dumb results. We do have the context to know how our future will look, and we can avoid a lot of SO's pitfalls.
We should be using that to the benefit of every person here tho, and treat askers as people rather than canonical question factories
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