Timeline for Should I downvote valid answers to off-topic questions
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| Aug 5, 2017 at 0:47 | comment | added | farnsy | A flood of bad questions is a potential annoyance, but in my opinion the econ area of SE has something of the opposite issue: very few questions and very few answers. Just because a question is more advanced doesn't mean it's more interesting nor helpful. Ultimately you and I (and others here) decide what type of place econ.SE will be. Will it be hostile to undergraduates in an attempt to have advanced questions only? That is a valid choice but not one I prefer. Anyway, in my opinion penalizing people who answer is not a good solution to the problem of too many bad questions. | |
| Aug 5, 2017 at 0:42 | comment | added | Giskard | I am sorry if my downvote has caused confusion to you. It seems to me this was mostly due to unfamiliarity with the FAQ and other meta posts, but I am still sorry. | |
| Aug 5, 2017 at 0:32 | comment | added | farnsy | The main meta answer you reference is not, to me, compelling either in its arguments nor its statistical significance in representing what is actually done. For that matter, neither is this question (not many people come to the meta). We can instead (or in addition) look to experience: You and I have just observed the downside of this practice and I would be surprised if either of us have observed others doing it or an upside. I should think that would be compelling at least to you and me. | |
| Aug 5, 2017 at 0:22 | comment | added | farnsy | Ubiquitous wrote both the accepted answer here and the policy you are pointing to. Certainly one person agrees with you. I agree that the question we are discussing was not the best; however it was good enough that my answer was helpful not only to the OP but to others solving the same type of problem. It was not clearly off topic, even by the standards you just linked to. | |
| Aug 5, 2017 at 0:16 | comment | added | Giskard | You may also want to read this econ meta question. | |
| Aug 5, 2017 at 0:14 | comment | added | Giskard | On this being a one man crusade I would like to point to Ubiquitous's link, which points to the main meta, and where the same answer has the highest number of votes, 63. | |
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| Aug 4, 2017 at 17:04 | history | answered | farnsy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |