@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog the third was also totally not relevant, no idea why anyone chose it. Re-closed as dupe of the only one which fits. Thanks for the heads up.
It does seem to work more consistently this past while, when I asked it usually didn't work (for ~10 minutes). Maybe a CAT6 replaced the rat-chewed cable. I got the page that says the error was logged a few times; once it was stripped bare (no HTML) and appeared as a single line at the top of the page; which was weird. Thanks for looking, it seems to work consistently ATM.
If someone has idle time and curiosity they can poke around, the page I saw claimed it got logged; so there's something for someone to see. If we get more reports elsewhere in the hours to come we have a starting point, I'm not going to open a meta for a no-repro that appears to have cleared itself; or shuffled the blame elsewhere. BTW: Enjoying your time off?
@RobertLongson It's not, though. It's a genuine question about SE's policies. Again, if I wanted to ask SE to force them to change their policies, I would have titled this question "SE, please change the policies of Medical Science SE". I included the link only for context, and I would be happy to remove it if necessary. — nick0120009 hours ago
I found it hard to condense my question into a simple title and not sure it fully explains my question. I am not sure if this occurs elsewhere on SE, but I have a specific example:
SuperUser covers general computer use, including Unix, Linux, and Ubuntu. Unix & Linux covers Unix, Linux, and Ub...
@Rubiksmoose So it should be answered. I don't understand why it was closed. We should answer and say that no, scope isn't decided by SE. That would actually be a very useful answer to have around, I recently needed it to convince another user of the same point.
I just voted to reopen. At the very least, the close reason is unfair, the user was clearly asking for input. They wouldn't like the input they would get, but still.
This is a thinly disguised rant based on your irritation that another site is not changing its policies due to your personal whims. You asked them to change, the voting on that question tells you it doesn't want to, that should be an end to it. In my experience such rants get downvoted, closed and then deleted. — Robert Longson10 hours ago
^That, I suspect, was the actual logic for closing it.
Yeah, but we seem to yell RANT at the slightest provocation. The user was calm, civil and put forth arguments. Calling it a rant is uncalled for and rude, IMO.
I agree with the sentiment, mind you. I just don't see a rant.
@terdon I'm pretty sure it comes up every once in a while that "who decides focus" and "are sites given any freedom to adapt and improvise"
@terdon closure usually doesn't stop discussion all that much IME, since people use comments anyway. If you doom something to a -10 score, for example, then you'd have nothing left but people piling on the popular opinion
@M.A.R. I thought so too. If you can find a good post explaining it (I found a bad one with nothing "official"), please share it. But bear in mind that since this is to convince someone that Meta (local metas) is where site scope is defined, so they don't currently consider Meta authoritative, if it's just a meta post it probably won't work very well...
In the recent question Where can I ask a question about advice for my job?, the OP asks where the following question would be appropriate:
What would be the best way to approach someone that works for me about bad odor?
CHAOS team member Abby Miller responded by suggesting the proposal The ...
@M.A.R. That might work as a dupe of the one from the medical site, yes. Doesn't help me convince a user that site scope is defined in meta and not set by SE though. :(
@JourneymanGeek since you locked [this]() post and we can't comment, you shall now be bugged. Please either reopen it so it can be closed as a dupe of meta.stackexchange.com/q/124911/203101, or just leave a comment pointing the user to that one. I think it should answer their question.
@terdon well, I think if you, as a lvl. 100 SE wizard and a 100k'er network-wide, tell them that, and they refuse to believe you, there's not much else to tell them that would convince them
The only hope is if they turn back after having cooled down
@JohnP You know that they know what they're talking about because of their Reputation score. That's the entire point of it: the verification of expertise on that topic. — nick01200017 hours ago
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I found it hard to condense my question into a simple title and not sure it fully explains my question. I am not sure if this occurs elsewhere on SE, but I have a specific example:
SuperUser covers general computer use, including Unix, Linux, and Ubuntu. Unix & Linux covers Unix, Linux, and Ub...
In the recent question Where can I ask a question about advice for my job?, the OP asks where the following question would be appropriate:
What would be the best way to approach someone that works for me about bad odor?
CHAOS team member Abby Miller responded by suggesting the proposal The ...
We need to talk.
We need to talk about StackExchange sites: about their autonomy, about governance.
We need to sift through all the analogies that have been thrown around (democracy, policemen, administrators, overlords, etc.) and decide which ones are useful and truthful.
Is StackExchange the...
