Timeline for Should we adjust the 'self-help' close message?
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:56 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Apr 8, 2015 at 14:57 | comment | added | Christian Hummeluhr | @Josh Took the words right out of my mouth. Sometimes there is also a lack of effort, but not necessarily. I think this Meta answer about effort vs. quality is pretty helpful: meta.stackexchange.com/a/210868/217374 | |
| Apr 8, 2015 at 14:05 | comment | added | Josh | I think there are lots of submissions where people genuinely want to understand the causes and effects of personal behavioral and psychological issues, and don't have the background knowledge to realize that psychological science isn't very good at explaining any individual person's behavior. This doesn't necessarily reflect a lack of effort, because they are asking the question that they really want an answer to, but no one on this site can possibly provide. | |
| Apr 8, 2015 at 12:27 | comment | added | Steven Jeuris Mod | I have the impression on this site, often "self-help" or "too localized" implies "lack of effort", ... not putting time into writing up a generalizable question which involves doing initial research in order to abstract away from one particular scenario. | |
| Apr 8, 2015 at 12:20 | comment | added | Steven Jeuris Mod | The highest upvoted answer argues "too localized" should stay to allow closing as "no effort". That is why I posted this back in the day when I was still active on Meta. :) | |
| Apr 8, 2015 at 12:18 | comment | added | Josh | It's interesting that the top three answers in the meta post about removing too localized are asking for it to come back. It definitely seems useful for this particular SE. | |
| Apr 8, 2015 at 10:52 | comment | added | Christian Hummeluhr | @StevenJeuris That's too bad. I think a lot of the poorer questions we get are just that: too localized. There's one question active now about a word for when a 'strong' party uses an unsound argument against a 'weak' party. It's obvious that this refers to some personal situation, but since the question avoided OVERT personal language, it's apparently fine. Sometimes I vote to close such questions based on off topic, sometimes on too broad or unclear, but they're actually just too localized even if they're not overtly personal. | |
| Apr 8, 2015 at 9:36 | comment | added | Steven Jeuris Mod | Don't forget "Too Localized" was removed in the first place "since the specific off-topic reasons now address its main use case". We can only add additional off-topic reasons. | |
| Apr 7, 2015 at 16:25 | comment | added | Josh | This suggests that maybe we should have two custom close messages: one that is for questions which are too localized to an individual's behavior and the other for medical questions. | |
| Apr 7, 2015 at 3:07 | history | answered | Jeromy AnglimMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |