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Q: How to deal with questions which an off-site search can answer?

SolusHow should we handle questions for which a quick Google or Wikipedia search would provide a great answer? This question was asked on StackOverflow.meta. The response was to answer it anyway, with the intention of making StackOverflow the best resource for those questions; so that when people do ...

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Borror0
Borror0
7:21 AM
Hello World
 
Fabian
Fabian
Hello @Borror
 
Borror0
Borror0
The "Not a Real Question" close answer isn't available on Skeptics?!
 
Fabian
Fabian
It's probably that way on all beta sites, but I have no idea why that would be so
 
Borror0
Borror0
@Fabian Was available on Atheism when I joined, but it was in public beta so maybe it's unique to private beta
 
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Q: Why is the "not a real question" close reason unavailable?

Borror0I was going to close this question as "not a real question": not a real question: It's difficult to tell what is being asked here. This question is ambiguous, vague, incomplete, overly broad, or rhetorical and cannot be reasonably answered in its current form. As Fabian said in the comment...

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Borror0
Borror0
7:32 AM
@Fabian Would you apply the too basic rule to questions which can be answered from block quoting Wikipedia?
 
Fabian
Fabian
Only if it is really trivial stuff, I'm not a big fan of that rule
I would amend the rule to only use it if it can be answered in one, short sentence.
 
Borror0
Borror0
It's really useful on sites like Science Fiction where most questions asked can really be answered with Wikipedia. At one point it's like "You know, Wikipedia exists."
 
 
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Fabian
Fabian
6:26 PM
@Borror0 What do you think about those marketing questions?
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Q: Multi-level marketing and Pyramid schemes. How to recognise pyramid scheme masquerading as an MLM?

Egle Today I spoke with a friend who told me about loyalty card scheme: Person has to buy expensive loyalty card and it gives him discount in listed stores and shops with a card he gets packet of discount cards he can distribute among friends. Every time person or his friend shops with this card - per...

marketing mlm pyramid
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Q: Supermarket "Membership" Cards and Data Collection

JYeltonStores more and more frequently offer better prices to customers who obtain one of their "membership" cards. Obviously such cards can be used to identify the shopper, collect data based on their purchase habits, and obviously be of great use to the company in determining prices, sales, and invent...

marketing data-collection
 
Borror0
Borror0
@Fabian I don't see how that one is on topic, in any shape or form
 
Fabian
Fabian
Both, or only the first one?
 
Borror0
Borror0
the first one
Moreover, I don't see how the distinction between pyramid and MLM is significant. In either cases, it's based on the principle that it's only worthwhile if you screw several other people over
 
Fabian
Fabian
I'd categorize that question under "scams"
And I'm wondering if we should declare those off-topic
And the second one is also off-topic IMO, it just asks why supermarkets use membership cards.
 
Borror0
Borror0
@Fabian agreed
The second is blatantly off-topic
It'd belong better on a marketing SE or whatever
 
Fabian
Fabian
6:41 PM
I've now voted as off-topic
 
Borror0
Borror0
The first one is, in the best case scenario, too broad.
 
Fabian
Fabian
I'm opening a meta post about that one
 
Borror0
Borror0
the MLM one?
 
Fabian
Fabian
yes
the other one I just voted, I don't think we need much discussion there
 
Borror0
Borror0
agreed
 
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6:44 PM
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Q: Are questions about pyramid schemes and other scams off-topic?

FabianWe have the following question on our site about a possible pyramid scheme: Multi-level marketing and Pyramid schemes. How to recognise pyramid scheme masquerading as an MLM? Should we consider questions about pyramid schemes and other financial frauds on-topic or off-topic here?

discussion off-topic
 
Borror0
Borror0
@fabian answered, lemme know what you think
Hi @rjstelling
 
rjstelling
rjstelling
7:01 PM
Hello all!
 
Fabian
Fabian
@Borror0 I haven't decided yet, I don't see any harm in allowing those questions but I'm not sure if we're not overextending ourselves.
@rjstelling Hi
 
Borror0
Borror0
@Fabian that might be possible
I'm always ready to get any of my answers on meta downvoted to oblivion
 
Fabian
Fabian
But we already have the problem that we really need experts from a very wide variety of fields, adding a few more probably won't change much
 
Borror0
Borror0
Experts isn't that much of an issue if we can get people to cite sources
 
Borror0
Borror0
7:35 PM
@rjstelling cou7ld you remove the evidence tag on your ID post?
I want to remove it, but for some reason the optino isn't there for me
 
rjstelling
rjstelling
@Borror0 done, my bad
 
Borror0
Borror0
@rjstelling you're far from alone. It's the third time we remove an evidence tag since @Fabian and I started to keep count
 
Fabian
Fabian
I've added an apocalypse tag, I somehow think we're going to need one ;-)
 
Borror0
Borror0
7:52 PM
You're one year too early
or 11 years too late
 
Fabian
Fabian
I think there are enough announces apocalypses for every year
room topic changed to Skeptics: General discussion about Skeptics.SE
 
Borror0
Borror0
We really need a better name than Skeptics.SE
 
Fabian
Fabian
But we're not getting our own domain name any time soon
 

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