Final Results
the meaning of the hadith: كل راية ترفع قبل قيام القائم ، فصاحبها طاغوت
Net Score: 3 (Excellent: 4, Satisfactory: 4, Needs Improvement: 1)
Does eating egg for Sehri makes Roza makrooh?
Net Score: 1 (Excellent: 4, Satisfactory: 6, Needs Improvement: 3)
Is Jihad Al-Nikah...
Someone gave the "words of divorce" answer an excellent?!
when it gives nothing but a link to islamQA... not even a link to a question that actually provides the answer, just a link to the category...
this is why we're still in beta... :(
not so much because of the vote, just because there's still people who (a) think that this is an answer worth posting, (b) don't bother to flag downvote and/or leave constructive criticism for this post despite it being up for almost two months and (c) don't actually answer the question (regardless of whether it be due to apathy or lack of knowledge).
need to write a meta post. the results of this review are just...bad.
Salaam alaykum. I wanted to know if the recent question on ISIS was deleted exactly because being off-topic or some other reasons. Because there have been some other political questions even on the same topic very recently that didn't get closed.
Politics on-topic vs off-topic is another area that we need to work on meta to regulate accurately. mods' decisions seems to be selective or based on personal judgment in this area.
if you're going to criticise, do it constructively. if all you're doing is whinging because you disagree with someone, it's just a waste of everyone's time.
but it is not too much personal as I'm criticizing a general trend of selective treatment of decisions on identical topics that come from pretty much one moderator.
that's why i thought it is better to discuss it personally with that mod to see if there are legitimate reasons for that trend which I might not know.
not a site of rules?! are you serious? we have a load of rules and policies that have been agreed by the community. so community and rules go hand in hand!
right on that. I agree that we don't have a productive committed community but I think that also doesn't justify acting arbitrarily by those contributing members who are supposed to "lead by example" as we say!
you do that in a very large good degree but there seems to be some slips every now and then, which is expected and many others of us also do maybe even more frequently than you, but i think when noticed they should not be defended!
I am getting following message in the question Is ISIS performing under Islamic rules?:
put on hold as off-topic by goto, goldPseudo♦ 16 hours ago
I dont think this is a political question but a question which asks about the validity of the actions of ISIS , it is like asking "XYZ" is doing...
@goldPseudo This is no use for it really @goldPseudo. I have seen you closed questions. Then the community opened it and you closed it again :) Nothing beats you :)
What I think we closed these questions are probably because we are afraid, it might bring out some wicked truth out of Islam, which in fact is reality.
I think questions can be closed if they garner partisan and inappropriate responses. But if not, they can stay open. Actually many would be interested in knowing is ISIS really operate on Islamic Principles or not?
alternatively, they could be closed because they are non constructive under the Stack Exchange model.
you've been pushing a "don't close anything ever" methodology for as far back as I can remember.
that is not the Stack Exchange way.
what you propose is just letting this site degrade into exactly the sort of unfocussed forum blahblah that Stack Exchange was built and designed to prevent.
@infatuated If I may add my 2c, the point of discussing mod decisions on meta rather then in here is that in chat your only chance is to persuade the mod that their decision was wrong by their own standard, on meta you can address/persuade/canvas the community who the mods are serving. Seeing as this has now come up on meta, you've got an excellent chance to make your case there.
fwiw I think that question is off-topic for the reason given, too broad and primarily opinion-based.
"Do they do what they do" - unless that is made a lot more specific, how can an answer possibly address everything 'they' do without writing a whole book.
"is there any authentic narration" - who gets to define what is 'authentic' on this site? that's just opinion-bait.
meh, I'll take my own advice and say all that on meta
I think you are doing the right thing by bringing this up here on meta - that is the constructive way of allowing the community to speak up and to address a bad decision if there has been one - so you have my +1 to say "thanks for bringing this up in the right place and the right way" but not to ...
I am getting folowing message for question Is ISIS performing under Islamic rules?:
"Questions on politics are off-topic as they're rarely productive or relevant to the teachings of Islam." – goldPseudo
The caliphate is an Islamic entity, so is the prophethood all of them are clearly politi...
I am getting following message in the question Is ISIS performing under Islamic rules?:
put on hold as off-topic by goto, goldPseudo♦ 16 hours ago
I dont think this is a political question but a question which asks about the validity of the actions of ISIS , it is like asking "XYZ" is doing...
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