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blunders
blunders
06:34
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Q: How can I stop offering a service?

SometimesBasically, how can a business stop offering a service? Should you give current customers a certain amount of notice? Are there any legal aspects that should be considered? What kind of effect could it have on my company's reputation? Are there any differences for this between free and paid serv...

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@MatthewHaugen: Not sure it makes sense to edit the scope/meaning of a question to match an answer after the fact. Are you aware of any existing meta supporting this?
Matthew Haugen
Matthew Haugen
@blunders The original question was way too broad. I edited it to fit the scope that I understood the OP to be asking about, as an alternative to closing it. I didn't mean to step on your answer, if I did.
If you have an alternative edit that you'd like to propose, my ears are definitely open.
blunders
blunders
07:05
@MatthewHaugen Nothing to do with my answer, just think that the you, not the OP changed the meaning, and that change was made to match the existing answer. More to the point, while I'm unable to cite a meta, my understanding is this is not good form, though very possible I'm mistaken, or for that matter, don't completely understand the edit or the OP's intent.
(Going offline; be back within 12-hours, or so. Cheers!)
Matthew Haugen
Matthew Haugen
@blunders The OP failed to respond to a two-week-old comment by Connor requesting more information, but has been seen on SE since, but has not contributed to Startups. I didn't base my edits off of the existing answer. I also didn't change the meaning, I expanded on it. At least that was my intention. Again, I'm definitely open to a more suitable edit.
The original version asked "Basically, how to stop offering a service whether free or paid?" which I fixed the grammar of and made a bit more professional, but nothing serious, and "Do you give current customers certain amount of notice or what would be recommended?" which to me implied a curiosity in the logistics of ending the service, so I expanded on those. Again, the original was just too broad.
 
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blunders
blunders
16:29
@MatthewHaugen Main issue in question is what rights the OP has to manage the intent of the question, given it appears that the OP has had the chance to review the edits in a timely manner, in this case, much like when you edited my question and I was around to notice the edit, I no longer see this instance as an issue.
That said, in my opinion, an OP has the right not to respond to comments, and the community has the right to close the question if it believes the OP question does not meet the site's guidelines.
 
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blunders
blunders
19:15
@eggyal: Any reason you don't post questions too? Realize that you might not have a question yourself, though I am guessing that you are in the position to ask good questions. Thanks for your answer on debt-vs-equity!
eggyal
eggyal
@blunders No particular reason—you can be sure that when something occurs to me, I will ask! I just feel, at the moment, there are an awful lot of generic questions (which are still useful, in their own way) but very few specific "I'm running a startup and am stuck on problem X" (which is the type of thing I think SE is particularly great for).
blunders
blunders
20:08
@Mr.Alien: Hey... :-)
@eggyal All the more reason for you to post questions, right?
Mr. Alien
Mr. Alien
@blunders hello :)
blunders
blunders
@Mr.Alien Any progress on your question related to financing your idea? Also, any reason you haven't selected an answer for the question?
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Q: I've an idea but I don't have enough capital to start up a company

Mr. AlienThis is a common issue for an individual has a lot of ideas but cannot start a business because he/she lacks sufficient capital backup. Assume that I want to start a decent Web Development company, but now I can't afford to buy assets in the initial stage. If I hire a few employees, I'll need su...

low-capital
eggyal
eggyal
@blunders You're right! As soon as I have one...
Mr. Alien
Mr. Alien
20:24
@blunders sorry for the late reply, was playing and will surely select one after I read them :)
blunders
blunders
@connor: Hey.... :-)
connor
connor
how's it going?
blunders
blunders
Good, chilly at the caffeine shop working... you?
connor
connor
doing pretty well
blunders
blunders
@connor Awesome; so, any thoughts on how to increase the quality of questions being posted; ask in part because I've recently posted a questions, some of which I've deleted due to a lack of traction.
connor
connor
20:43
I don't have any perfect solutions, sorry. I know we've slowed down a bit the past few days, but were doing alright compared to other sites in beta
it's rare for a site to to hit all of its targets in the 90 day period and we also had an extended private beta period
there's nothing wrong with leaving a question open even if it doesn't get an answer immediately
you may even get the tumbleweed badge
Mr. Alien
Mr. Alien
@connor dont worry about the stats, all you need is quality content
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connor
connor
That's definitely true and I think we've been doing well in that regard. I think we're still on a good track here, steadily growing and producing usefull content
blunders
blunders
@connor Yes, I know there's nothing technically wrong with it, just my personal way of managing my queries; for one, I really don't like a low-quality answer being posted, and then having the question just exist forever like that, since I'm able to delete the question after an answer is posted.
@connor I don't care about gamification; unless of course that's how to game the system to get more information.
@Mr.Alien Correct; from Tim Post's public beta announcement "Put simply, unless we see the site overrun with extremely poor quality questions and spam, and no one doing anything about it, you've got a site."
connor
connor
that's fair. You can still flag your question for deletion, but if the question and answer look fine it's unlikely to be accepted
if you do still want an answer to an old question, bounties can be effective
blunders
blunders
@connor Nan, I have a billion questions, no single question is that important to me.
connor
connor
20:57
well keep asking them, I've learned quite a bit from your questions and the answers they generate
blunders
blunders
@connor Thanks, that's good, wish more people would ask questions.
connor
connor
They'll come. Whenever I have one, I ask it. I just can't make up questions on the spot.
blunders
blunders
@connor (Personally, I hunt for good questions, but that's me... :-)
connor
connor
also, if you know anyone who would interested in a site like this, be sure to invite them
blunders
blunders
@connor I used to market SE sites, but it too hard to get solid data from them on my marketing campaigns, so I stopped doing it.

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